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
The Académie Julian () was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris, France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907) that was active from 1868 through 1968. It remained famous for the number a ...
, and became a very popular portrait painter, thanks to
Léon Bonnat
Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
Early life
Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in Ma ...
. 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 of the ''Salon'' in 1880.
Amélie Beaury-Saurel provided generously most of her mother and sister's necessities. After Julian's death, she bought and laid out "Château Julian", in
Lapalud, a village in
Provence, in memory of her husband, who had been born there. She died in
Paris.
Awards and recognition
She was awarded with a Third Medal in the ''Salon'' in 1885 and a bronze medal in 1889
World's Fair.
[Women artists in nineteenth-century France and England: their art: Volume 1 Charlotte Yeldham - 1984 "Fig.67] Mlle Amélie Beaury-Saurel also exhibited a self-portrait, a drawing, at the Salon of 1887, a work which received superlative praise. Like Anna Bilinska she was admired for the "virility" of her technique.
Beaury-Saurel was included in the 2018 exhibit ''Women in Paris 1850–1900''.
Select list of works
*"Christ en croix" de l'Église Saint-Etienne, Issy-les-moulineaux, 1873.
*"Portrait d'une femme noire", 1884
*"Le travail de M. Frey, Maître d'armes", prix d'honneur à l'exposition Blanc et Noir de 1891.
*"Portrait de Séverine", 1893.
*"Dans le bleu", 1894.
*"Le repos du modèle" (Musée d'Amiens)
*"Portrait de Mme G. C..."
*"Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921) peintre", 1919.
*"Portrait of Gilbert Dupuis", 1922.
*"Portrait de
Léonce Bénédite (1859-1925) conservateur du musée du Luxembourg", 1923 (
Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) ( en, Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art ...
).
*"Portrait d'Alexis Ballot-Beaupré (1836-1917)"
Gallery
File:Beary-Saurel Jean-Paul Laurens.jpg, ''Portrait of Jean Paul Laurens (1838-1921), French painter'', 1919
File:Beaury-Saurel Dans le bleu (RO 494).jpg, ''Dans le bleu'', 1894
File:Voisin, Felix.JPG, ''Portrait of M Felix Voisin'', 1898
File:Dupuis par Beaury-Saurel.JPG, ''Portrait of Gilbert Dupuis''
File:Amélie Beaury-Saurel.jpg, ''Portrait of Séverine'', 1893
File:Nos eclaireuses 1914.jpg, Postcard reproduction of a painting by Beaury-Saurel exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1914, representing seven pioneers
File:Les muses françaises 1908 André Corthis.jpg, alt=, Portrait of the French writer André Corthis, circa 1908
References
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1849 births
1924 deaths
French women painters
Academic art
Académie Julian alumni
19th-century French painters
20th-century French painters
19th-century French women artists
20th-century French women artists