{{short description|French painter (1851–1886)}}
[[File:L'Envoûteuse (The Sorceress) Georges Merle.jpg|thumb|right|250px|''L'Envoûteuse (The Sorceress)'', oil on canvas, Georges Merle, 1883. Birmingham Museum of Art]] '''Georges Merle''' (1851–1886) was a French painter known for his outstanding command of the female form. He often submitted works to the Salon in Paris.<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Birmingham Museum of Art | title = Birmingham Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection | publisher = Giles | year = 2010 | location = London | pages = 225 | url = http://www.birminghammuseumstore.org/bmapu.html | accessdate = 2011-06-27 | isbn = 978-1-904832-77-5 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110910171150/http://www.birminghammuseumstore.org/bmapu.html | archivedate = 2011-09-10 }}</ref>
His father, Hugues Merle, was also a painter. As Georges rarely signed his early pieces, several of his early works were at first mistakenly attributed to his father.
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==External links== * [http://artsbma.org/january-2013-the-sorceress/ ''L'Envoûteuse (The Sorceress)''], Birmingham Museum of Art
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