Blanche Hennebutte-Feillet (1815–1886) was a French

lithographer Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...

and painter. She is remembered in particular for the

lithographs Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...

she created for albums illustrating

Bayonne Bayonne (; eu, Baiona ; oc, label= Gascon, Baiona ; es, Bayona) is a city in Southwestern France near the Spanish border. It is a commune and one of two subprefectures in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine re ...

and the Basque Country. As a painter, she exhibited in the Paris salon from 1841.

Biography

Born in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

on 5 November 1815, Blanche Feillet was the daughter of the painter and lithographer Pierre Jacques Feillet (1794–1855) and Hélène Pernotin. On 24 January 1844, she married Charles Henry Firmin Hennebutte, a publisher, with whom she had two children: Henri Joseph Ernest (1845) and Pierre Louis Gaston (1856). She moved to

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

with her family in 1829 before settling in

in 1834. Unlike her sister Hélène, she was more of a lithographer than a painter. She did nevertheless exhibit in the Paris Salon in 1841 with "Vue d’un moulin près de Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port" and in 1848 with "Naufrage dans les rochers de Biarritz près de Bayonne" and "Vue de l’entrée de la Barre de Bayonne". In the late 1840s, her husband published ''Description des environs de Bayonne'' which was illustrated with the lithographs she and her sister had created. It became popular with tourists who were beginning to travel to the area. It was followed in 1851 by ''Le Guide du Voyageur de Bayonne à Saint-Sébastien'' and in 1852 by "Album des deux frontières", again richly illustrated by the two sisters. The sold well in several editions, bringing prosperity to the family. In 1857, in her father's footsteps, see was appointed head of the Bayonne Art School (Ecole de Dessin et de Peinture de Bayonne). She also taught ornamental drawing at Bayonne's Association Philomatique. Blanche Hennebutte-Feillet died on 15 September 1886 in the family home in Biarritz. In November 2015, the work of Hélène and Blache Feillet was exhibited at the Basque Museum in Bayonne.

References

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