Adolphe La Lyre

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1848 - 1933

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Adolphe Lalyre, also spelt Adolphe Lalire or La Lyre, was a French academic painter, born in Rouvres-en-Woëvre in 1848. He died in Courbevoie in 1933. After graduating from the École des beaux-arts in Paris in 1875, he exhibited at the Salon des artistes Français between 1876 and 1929. Initially making a debut with religious subjects, he soon started to paint female nudes and mythological water nymphs, giving him the nickname “painter of the sirens”. After discovering the Cotentin region in 1872, he moved to Carteret where he built a villa, called “castle of sirens”. He also designed the stained-glass windows of the choir of the church of Saint-Germain destroyed in 1941. A member of des Artistes Français from 1880, he received a medal at the universal exhibitions of Paris in 1889 and 1900. He was also an art critic, who wrote: "Le Nu féminin à travers les âges" (The Feminine Nude through the ages), published in 1910.

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