Painters Savoyards / Isabelle Mège

Isabelle Mège (1878-1966) - Born in 1878 in Aubenas, Isabelle Verny, daughter of a bourgeois family d'Ardèche has every opportunity to indulge his artistic leanings. It plays by heart all Chopin and perfected in the paint. From his marriage to Colonel Mège infantry in 1900, it will have three children with one of his sons, Henri Mège, will also taste for painting. Capita Paris until 1914, it was time to present their works on many occasions, at the Salon des including comedians. His subjects are predilections of the characters she creates vivid and marked traits. Developing his own painting, which remains secret it suspects the presence of mud and crusts of bread. The First World War was, when she moved to Chambery, where she quickly resumed his artistic activities. She painted many local people, she regularly invites elderly to better represent them on a canvas. She realizes scenes as card parties, the parishioners expressing their faith… The artist also takes the time to represent some landscape even if it is not his favourite subject. Following the death of her husband occurred in 1936, it finally leaving Savoie to return to his homeland Ardèche.

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