Edmond Joséphine Claire LANGLOIS
 (Paris, active from 1870 to 1893)

 Young Italian girl with tambourine

 Oil on canvas
 Signed top right
 65 x 54 cm

 Miss Joséphine Claire ROELLY, born in Paris, married in the same city Mr. Edmond Théodore LANGLOIS, principal engraver in the geographical service of the army. From then on, Miss ROELLY would sign her works by Mrs. E. LANGLOIS.

 She exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1870 to 1890 as a student of Mr. Abel Lucas and Léon PERRAULT under the name of Madame Edmond Joséphine Claire LANGLOIS. She was also present in 1884 and 1885 at the Salon of the Union of Women Painters and Sculptors but also at the Rouen Salon, between 1888 and 1893, as having been awarded a silver medal at the Amiens Salon of 1884.

 Her first appearance at the Paris Salon dates from 1870 with two watercolors of religious scenes after the great masters of the Renaissance. Then, the following year, she produced pastel portraits. From 1878, she would only present oil portraits at the Salon.

 Madame LANGLOIS was a member of the Society of French Artists.

 The reverse of the canvas features the stencil of the manufacturer L. PREVOST, active in Paris from 1874 to 1890.