Auguste de La Brely
(1838-1906)

Auguste de La Brely was born in Fuisse (Saone-et-Loire) in 1838 and died in Lyon, France, April 20, 1906. He received his formal training in Paris at the Beaux-Arts Academie under Marc-Gabriel and Charles Gleyre (1808-1874). De La Brely debuted at the Paris Salon of 1863.
 
In this delightful picture, “THE SWING”, de La Brely demonstrates his ability to express the feelings of his characters and therefore communicates his painting as through the eyes of its viewers like an author writing a book. Mere technical excellence was not enough: a work needed imagination and imagination was to be displayed in the choice and presentation of the subject. The result of paintings like these was a very literary sort of painting, and art was never closer to literature than in the nineteenth century.

Museum:
Musee de Tournus, “Jeune femme ecrivant”

Listed:
E. Benezit, v.6, pg.355