Gaston LHUER (1868- circa 1915)

He was a pupil of Cormon and Renard. He worked from 1890. He was awarded a medal in 1910.
He did many cartoons for the press.

His works are full of sweetness. His technique is fine and realistic, and his colours are pastel and cheerful.
He liked to paint everyday life in Paris, especially in the Tuileries and Luxembourg gardens. He brings a particular point of view with always interesting perspectives.

He also painted more intimate scenes, like our embroiderer, always full of delicacy, with a soft light and very poetic.

There is something of Vermeer and Hammershoi in this work by Lhuer, a harmony between the horizontal and vertical lines, a quietness and evanescence in the great concentration of the embroiderer, a universal theme that the artist treats with great modernity.