Hugues Merle built his reputation on faces carrying a story, and that kind of quiet drama is what makes his portrait work such a natural fit for counted cross stitch.
Merle was a French painter, born in 1822 and died in 1881. His subjects were mostly sentimental or moral ones, pictures meant to move the viewer rather than simply flatter a sitter, and titles like Queen Esther and The Lunatic of Etretat give a fair sense of the range he worked in. He has often been compared to William-Adolphe Bouguereau, a comparison that followed him through his career and still shapes how his name is read today.
Merle taught Elizabeth Gardner, who painted in much the same vein.
If it is the painting itself you love rather than the stitching, Hugues Merle art prints are easy to find.
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