Élise Bruyère was a French painter who specialized in portraits and floral still lifes.

Bruyère was the daughter of Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier

Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier

Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier was a writer, illustrator and painter of French history. His most famous work was a representation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen he made in 1789. He was the father of Élise Bruyère.-External links:...

 (1738–1836), a noted French writer, illustrator, and painter of French historical scenes. Her sister Henriette was also a painter.

Bruyère was of the Realist

Realism (visual arts)

Realism in the visual arts is a style that depicts the actuality of what the eyes can see. The term is used in different senses in art history; it may mean the same as illusionism, the representation of subjects with visual mimesis or verisimilitude, or may mean an emphasis on the actuality of...

 school of French painting, and her still lifes, particularly her paintings of flowers, are remarkably detailed. A typical work, Vase de fleurs, is in the Musée du Louvre

Louvre

The Musée du Louvre – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement...

in Paris.