Women artists in all ages and countriesEllet, E. F. (Elizabeth Fries)
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Women artists in all ages and countries
Ellet, E. F. (Elizabeth Fries)
Women artists
Regnault, the rival of David, had the honor of many more female
scholars. One of them, Madame Anzon, painted large pictures in 1793.
Sophie Guillemard sent to the Exhibition, in 1802, “Alcibiades
and Glycerion,” and, two years later, her “Joseph and Potiphar’s
Wife.” After this, Claire Robineau produced historical pictures and
landscapes, and Rosalie de Lafontaine her delicate genre-paintings.
Aurore Etienne de Lafond and Eugénie Brun obtained medals for their
master-pieces in miniature-painting. Madame Lenoir painted Sage’s
portrait, and was much esteemed. A host of names might be added, were a
mere list desirable.
The disciples and imitators of David also numbered women among
their pupils. Drolling’s daughter, Louise Adéone, studied under his
direction; her first husband was Pagnierre the architect. Fanny Robert
was trained in Girodet’s atelier; Abel de Pujol taught Adrienne Marie
Louise Grandpierre Deverzy; and Gérard finished some of David’s
scholars, as Eléonore Godefroy, who exhibited portraits and copies from
her master after 1810, and Louise de Montferrier, Comtesse de Hugo,
whose genre-paintings were brought to the Exhibition nine years later.
Madame von Butlar, of Dresden, studied under this master in 1823.
These were the latest masters in serious historical painting till
Robert Fleury and Léon Cogniet, who could perhaps boast the greatest
number of gifted female pupils. We should mention here Jeanne Elizabeth
Gabiou, the wife of Antoine Denis Chaudet, born in 1767, and dying
about 1830. She was a pupil of her husband, and painted “A Child
Teaching a Dog to Read,” with many charming little pieces of the kind;
excelling, too, as a portrait-painter. The empress bought one of her
pictures.
The majority of French women artists of this period busied themselves
with portraits. Flower-painting was also much in vogue, and miniature
and porcelain painting furnished continual employment for female
industry and talent.
In modeling and sculpture France has produced some excellent artists
since the commencement of the present century.
MARIE D’ORLEANS.
One in particular, of illustrious station and royal blood, too early
snatched away by death, has conferred lustre upon the whole class by
whom the difficult and delicate art has been cultivated.
Marie of Orleans, the daughter of Louis Philippe, is thus mentioned in
Mrs. Lee’s “Sketches.”
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