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List Of French Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in France or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A *Louise Abbéma (1853–1927), painter, sculptor, designer *Georges Achille-Fould (1868–1951), painter *Françoise Adnet (1924–2014), figurative painter * Hélène Agofroy (born 1953), contemporary artist *Georgette Agutte (1867–1922), painter *Fanny Alaux (1797–1880), painter *Lou Albert-Lasard (1885–1969), painter *Yvette Alde (1911–1967), painter * Jeanne Amen (1863–1923), painter. *Beatrice Valentine Amrhein (born 1961), painter *Anastasia (fl. c.1400), manuscript illuminator *Virginie Ancelot (1792–1875), painter, writer *Hélène Marie Antigna (1837–1918), painter *Lydie Arickx (born 1954), painter * Yolande Ardissone (born 1927), painter *Geneviève Asse (1923–2021), painter *Virginie Augustin (born 1973), comics and animated features artist *Pauline Auzou (1775–1835), painter B *Anna Barbara Bansi (1777–1863), painter * Jeanne Bard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginie Augustin
Virginie Augustin (March 11, 1973, Chatou) is a French comics book artist. She has also worked on animated features with Walt Disney Animation Studios and France 3. Biography After studying at Gobelins, Augustin worked with Walt Disney Animation Studios on the animated features ''Tarzan'' (1999) and ''Hercules'' (1997). Her career in animation also led her to work on ''W.I.T.C.H.'' (2001), ''Dragon Hunters'' (2006), and ''Code Lyoko'' (2003) for France 3, and on the animated film ''Corto Maltese, la cour secrète des arcanes'' (2002). Shortly after ''Corto Maltese'', in 2003, she joined the comic strip world and drew the four volumes of the ''bande dessinée'' heroic fantasy series ' with scriptwriter . Augustin then participated in several collectives (, , , , and ). She also produced a sketchbook for Comix buro, the collection of books directed by . Then she entered the collection of ', where she drew ''Voyage aux Ombres,'', a one-shot scripted by Christophe Arleston and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcelle Bergerol
Marcelle Bergerol (née Cahen) (1901 Paris - 1989 Boulogne-Billancourt) was a post-impressionist French painter, specializing in paintings of France and Paris, Brittany, and the Quercy region of France. Bergerol took drawing classes before she joined the atelier of Edmond Heuzé in the early 1920. She exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants starting in 1927 and later showed her work at the Salon d'Automne from 1929 to 1936, and the Salon des Tuileries from 1930 to 1934. She also exhibited in several galleries in Paris, such as the Gallery du Verseau, the Gallery Altarriba and the Gallery Armand Drouant, before and after World War II. Color and forms are two distinctive elements in Bergerol's work. Her art was influenced by Cézanne, Monet, and Pissarro. As a post-impressionist painter, however, she was especially influenced by the use of colors in fauvist painter Albert Marquet Albert Marquet (27 March 1875 – 14 June 1947) was a French painter, associated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Guillemine Benoist
Marie-Guillemine Benoist, born Marie-Guillemine de Laville-Leroux (December 18, 1768 – October 8, 1826), was a French neoclassical, historical, and genre painter. Biography Benoist was born in Paris, the daughter of a civil servant. Her training as an artist began in 1781 under Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and she entered Jacques-Louis David's atelier in 1786 along with her sister Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux. The poet Charles-Albert Demoustier, who met her in 1784, was inspired by her in creating the character Émilie in his work ''Lettres à Émilie sur la mythologie'' (1801). In 1791, Benoist exhibited for the first time at the '' Paris Salon'', displaying her mythology-inspired picture ''Psyché faisant ses adieux à sa famille''. Another of her paintings of this period, ''L'Innocence entre la vertu et le vice'', is similarly mythological and reveals her feminist interests—in this picture, vice is represented by a man, although it was traditionally represented by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denise Bellon
Denise Bellon (20 September 1902 – 31 October 1999) was a French photographer associated with the Surrealism, Surrealist movement. Life She was born Denise Hulmann in Paris and studied psychology at the University of Paris, Sorbonne. She first married Jacques Bellon although the couple later divorced. Bellon began work as a photographer with . From 1934 to 1940, she was part of the team of photographers at the agency founded by Maria Eisner. In 1940, she married . He founded the newspaper ''Midi Libre''; she worked for the paper as a photographer. During the Nazi occupation of France, from 1940, she lived in Lyon. Then, from 1946 until 1956 when she returned to Paris, Bellon lived in Montpellier. She was photographer for the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, International Exhibitions of Surrealism held in 1938, 1947, 1959 and 1965. Bellon also photographed various Surrealist artists and their works, including Joan Miró, Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duchamp and Marcel Jean. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabrielle Bellocq
Gabrielle Bellocq (15 June 1920 - 29 July 1999) was a French Neo-impressionist pastel artist. She was known as a colorist, and her works, which were not painted from life, included a variety of colors that produced an unusual perspective and impressionistic effects. Life and career Bellocq was born in 1920 in Saint-Hillaire-de-Talmont, a seaside commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. She lived most of her life near the sea in this region. Her mother taught her piano and singing and organized painting lessons with nuns at the Couvent de Saint-Sornin. She developed a passion for painting and was taught to copy others' work through her painting instruction. As a boarder at school from a young age, she spent her time on Sundays between Sunday Mass, Vespers, and walks in the Vendée countryside. Throughout this period, she accumulated a library of images that she later reproduced in Neo-impressionist pastel paintings. Around 1950, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hélène De Beauvoir
Henriette-Hélène de Beauvoir (6 June 1910 – 1 July 2001) was a French painter. She was the younger sister of philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. Her art was exhibited in Europe, Japan, and the US. She married Lionel de Roulet. When Hélène de Beauvoir lived in Goxwiller, a village near Strasbourg, she became president of the center for battered women. She continued painting until she was 85. Her paintings were related to feminist philosophy and women's issues. , by Claudine Monteil
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Amélie Beaury-Saurel
Amélie Beaury-Saurel (1849 – May 30, 1924) was a French painter noted for portraiture. Life and career Born in Barcelona as Amélie Beaury, she added "Saurel" to her name in recognition of her mother's family who could trace their lineage to the Byzantine emperors of the 11th century. Her family lived in Spain and Corsica, but eventually settled in France where she enrolled in the Academie Julian and paid for her studies by carrying out administrative duties and managing the finances. At various times, she was a pupil of J. Lefebvre, T. Robert-Fleury and J.P. Laurens in Académie Julian, and became a very popular portrait painter, thanks to Léon Bonnat. She married Rodolphe Julian in 1895 and took on charge a women's atelier. In her publications, Marie Bashkirtseff (also a Julian pupil) talked distrustfully about "l'espagnole" (''the Spanish woman''). She made her ''début'' in the ''Salon de Paris'' in 1874, where she was considered one of the most important artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Adélaïde Baubry-Vaillant
Marie–Adélaïde Baubry Vaillant (''née'' Baubry; 7 April 1827 – 5 July 1899) was a French painter. She was born in Paris and was a pupil of Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury and Alphonse Louis Galbrund. She married Jean-Baptiste Vaillant.''Paris, France & Vicinity Marriage Banns, 1860–1902'' References Marie-Adélaïde Baubry-Vaillant on artnet 1827 births 1899 deaths Painters from Paris 19th-century French painters French women painters 19th-century French women artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Françoise Basseporte
Madeleine Françoise Basseporte, (28 April 1701 – 6 September 1780) was a French painter. From 1741 until her death, she served as the Royal Painter for the King's Garden and Cabinet (now the Jardin des Plantes), an unprecedented appointment for a woman artist at the time. Life Basseporte was born and died in Paris. Originally a portrait painter specializing in pastels, she apprenticed with the botanical illustrator Claude Aubriet, requiring her to shift from pastels to watercolors and to adopt a precise, near-photographic style. In 1741, she replaced the ailing Aubriet as "Peintre du Roy, de son Cabinet et du Jardin", making her the first female artist to occupy the office. She served for nearly 40 years in this capacity, employing not only scientific illustration skills, but also the capacity to dissect plants and reveal their internal structures. The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau paid tribute to her, writing "Nature gives plants their existence, but Mademoiselle Bassepo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Barka
Nina Barka (5 October 1908 – 1986), real name Marie Smirsky, was a prominent naive artist. She was born in Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) of Ukrainian parents, but moved to France, where she became a French citizen. Her work had many Russian(Slavic) and Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ... themes. References External linksArtnet data {{DEFAULTSORT:Barka, Nina 1908 births 1986 deaths French women painters Naïve painters 20th-century French women artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estelle De Barescut
Estelle de Barescut (c. 1815 – c. 1852) was a French painter and lithographer. She exhibited her lithographs at the Salon de Paris in 1834 and 1835, and her paintings from 1842 to 1851. Biography She was born Estelle-Félicité-Marie de Barescut (or de Barescut de Vernet). Sources differ on her place of birth, with some citing Versailles and others saying Paris. She was a student of the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, École royale et gratuite de dessin pour les jeunes personnes de Paris in the 1820s, where in October 1829 she won a 2nd prize in drawing. She was later a student of Horace Vernet. Works Painting Exhibited at the Salons * ''Portraits en pied des filles de Mme...'', Salon of 1842 * ''Portrait de Mlle...'', Salon of 1842 * ''Portrait de de Mme d'...'', Salon of 1843 * ''Tête de jeune fille'', étude, Salon of 1843 (No. 36) * ''Une jeune châtelaine ; costume du moyen-âge'', Salon of 1844 (No. 66) * ''Portraits des enfants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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