Louise Catherine Breslau
1856–1927 · Impressionism
Louise Catherine Breslau was a German-born Swiss painter, who learned drawing to pass the time while bedridden with chronic asthma. She studied art at the Académie Julian in Paris, and exhibited at the salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, where she became a respected colleague of noted figures such as Edgar Degas and Anatole France.
14 paintings
- Portrait of Jean Carriès in his studio (1886)
- Pensive life (1908)
- The Toilet (1898)
- Young Woman and Chrysanthemum – Portrait of Wilhelmina Carlson-Bredberg (1890)
- Gamins de Paris (1885)
- Fleur d’hiver (1892)
- Robert Thegerström, 1857-1919 (1886)
- Ernst Josephson, 1851-1906 (1886)
- Friends' portrait (1881)
- Berligot Ibsen (née Bjornsen) (1889)
- Fillette à l'Orange (1899)
- Self-portrait (1891) (1891)
- Chez soi (1885)
- Henry Davison (1880)