Delphine Arnould de Cool, née Fortin (25 December 1830 – 16 January 1921) was a French painter and writer on

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Biography

Cool-Fortin was born as the daughter of the painter Paul Fortin in

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. She was something of a

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and became a successful painter at a young age, signing works as ''Delphine Fortin''. She married Alexandre de Cool and had two sons born in Limoges, including the painter Gabriel de Cool born in 1854, and a daughter born in Paris after the couple moved there soon afterwards. During this period, she signed works as ''Delphine de Cool''. Her husband was a writer and the couple were both members of the

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. Madame de Cool became a teacher and a writer on Limoges porcelain, and was head of an "

Élisa Lemonnier Élisa Lemonnier (24 March 1805 – 5 June 1865) was a French educationist who is considered the founder of vocational education for women in France. Early years Marie-Juliette Élisa Grimailh, known as Élisa by her family, was born in Sorèze, ...

" school in 1890 when she published her treatise on porcelain in French and English called ''Traité de peintures vitrifiables sur porcelaine dure et porcelaine tendre sur émail''. After her husband died, she married the sculptor-writer

Arthur Arnould Arthur Arnould (17 April 1833, Dieuze - 26 November 1895) was a French writer, and journalist. He wrote under the pen name ''Arthur Matthey''. He was a member of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor and the Theosophical Society. He married the widow ...

in 1890. She exhibited her work at The Woman's Building at the 1893

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in Chicago, Illinois, and her treatise was included in the Women's Library, along with a discussion of her miniature works in gouache by her second husband (writing under his pseudonym ''A. Matthey''). Her painting ''A Good Cigarette'' was included in the 1905 book ''

Women Painters of the World ''Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413–1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day'', assembled and edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow, lists an overview of prominent women painters up to 1905, the year of publication. Th ...

''.
Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day
', by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905

Gallery

File:Delphine Arnould de Cool-Fortin - A Good Cigarette.jpg, ''A Good Cigarette'' File:Delphine de Cool - Traité de peintures vitrifiables sur porcelaine - 1890.png, ''Traité de peintures vitrifiables sur porcelaine'', 1890

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