In darkened passage - selected work of Xavier Mellery

 

L'Escalier.

Après les prières du soir.

Couloir du Cloître.

Effet de lumière, 1890.

Intérieur de l'église.

Deux femmes dans un intérieur.

Au béguinage.

Soirée à la table de la cuisine.

Squelette entourée d’un voile, 1899.

Vieille béguine montant l’escalier, circa 1890.

Les Portes.

Mon vestibule, circa 1899.

Chambre à coucher, circa 1888.

Le But des choses.

L'Escalier.

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Xavier Mellery (9 August 1845, Laeken - 4 February 1921, Brussels), Belgian Symbolist painter. The son of a gardener at the Royal Palace of Laeken, he initially worked with the painter-decorator Charles Albert. He attended the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels from 1860 to 1867. Having won the Belgian Prix de Rome in 1870, he travelled to Italy, where he was inspired by paintings from the Renaissance. His early work treated the working lives of the Belgian poor in a social realist manner. He was made a knight of the Order of Leopold in 1885.