Élise PUYROCHE-WAGNER (Dresden 1828 - Lyon 1895) Garland of white roses Original canvas Signed and dated lower left "Elise Wagner 1853". 100 x 77.5 cm (old restorations and accidents to the stretcher (in the lower part); stretcher enlarged by 1 cm). Exhibition: Salon de 1855, n° 4201. Elise Puyroche was born Wagner of French parents. She married Pastor Alexandre Parrot de Puyroche in Lyon in 1858. A genre and flower painter, she trained with Emmeline Humblot, a flower painter in Dresden, and Simon Saint-Jean, in Lyon. In 1851, she was named honorary member of the Dresden Academy of Art, and exhibited at the Salon from 1853.