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Little Tintin by Jerrod Maruyama on Flickr.

The Amour of Armor. 

Léon François Comerre (10 Oct 1850 – 1916) was a French academic painter, famous for his portraits of beautiful women.

He moved to Lille with his family in 1853. From an early age he showed an interest in art and became a student of Alphonse Colas at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lille, winning a gold medal in 1867. From 1868 a grant from the Département du Nord allowed him to continue his studies in Paris at the famous Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the studio of Alexandre Cabanel. There he came under the influence of orientalism.

Comerre first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1871 going on to win prizes there in 1875 and 1881. In 1875 he won the Grand Prix de Rome for his painting “L’Ange annonçant aux bergers la naissance du Christ” (The Angel announcing the birth of Christ to the shepherds).

Rooney Mara for Vogue (January 2012)