Delphin Enjolras’ Ladies

For Julie with love, 💜💚❤️💙 🎈🎂❤️🎁🎈🎂❤️🎁 Music: “We’ll meet again” (Vera Lynn) piano: Harry Völker 🎈🎂❤️🎁🎈🎂❤️🎁 Delphin Enjolras (1857 Coucouron –1945 Toulouse) was a French academic painter. Enjolras painted portraits, nudes, interiors, and used mostly watercolours, oil and pastels. He is best known for his intimate portraits of young women performing mundane activities such as reading or sewing, often illuminated by lamplight. Perhaps his most famous work is the “Young Woman Reading by a Window“. He was born in Coucouron, Ardèche, son of Casimir Enjolras and Delphine Laurens. Enjolras studied under watercolorist Gaston Gérard at the “Ecole de Dessin de la