Clara Pauline Filleul, also Clara Filleul de Pétigny, (née Claire Pauline Filleul) (1822–1878) was a French painter and children's writer. Together with the painter

Raymond Monvoisin '' 200px, Portrait of Andrés Bello '' Raymond Auguste Quinsac Monvoisin (May 31, 1790 – March 26, 1870) was a French artist and painter. Biography Monvoisin was born in Bordeaux. Although he initiated a career in the military by indication o ...

she travelled to South America in the late 1840s, becoming a successful portrait painter in

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. On returning to France, she exhibited in the

Paris Salon The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...

from 1860. As an author, from 1846 she published a number of illustrated children's stories.

Biography

Born on 18 March 1833 in

Nogent-le-Rotrou Nogent-le-Rotrou () is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture and is located on the river Huisne, 56 kilometres west of Chartres on the RN23 and 150 kilometres south west of Paris, to which it is li ...

as Claire Pauline Filleul, she was the daughter of the lawyer François Adrien Filleul and Pauline de Pétigny de Rivery, who came from a noble Picard family. After completing her schooling at the Institution Delfeuille in Nogent in 1835, she travelled to Palestine, Switzerland, Italy, Egypt and Algeria, publishing illustrated accounts of her travels. She then studied drawing, painting and

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under

Raymond Auguste Monvoisin '' 200px, Portrait of Andrés Bello '' Raymond Auguste Quinsac Monvoisin (May 31, 1790 – March 26, 1870) was a French artist and painter. Biography Monvoisin was born in Bordeaux. Although he initiated a career in the military by indication o ...

and exhibited her first painting at the Paris Salon in 1842. From 1842, she accompanied Monvoisin on journeys to South America for stays in Peru, Chile and Brazil. In 1848, together with Monvoisin, she arrived in

where they opened a studio. Over the next 10 years, Filleul became one of the principal painters in Chile, with notable works such as ''Una guasa'' (c.1855). She also coloured photographs in Victor Deroche's studio. She also taught art in Santiago and was awarded a medal for her portraits. On returning to France in 1860, she again exhibited at the Salon. While her pastel paintings of baskets of fruit were highly acclaimed, she also created portraits in oils and gave painting lessons. Several of her books were reprinted, including ''Récits au coin du feu'' and ''La Palestine''. Clara Filleul died in Paris on 7 August 1878 but was buried in Nogent-le-Rotrou.

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