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Henriette Gudin (May 17, 1825 – July 14, 1892) was a French
Henriette Gudin (May 17, 1825 – July 14, 1892) was a French marine painter
Marine art or maritime art is a form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the sea—a genre part ...
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Biography
Henriette Herminie Louise Gudin was born in Paris, the daughter of the painterJean Antoine Théodore de Gudin
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. Like her father, she became a marine painter. Her generally serene compositions emphasize boats in the middle distance under hazy skies with diffuse, otherworldly light. She exhibited at 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 ...
in 1849, 1850, and 1853, and her work is in the collection of the Calvet Museum
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in Avignon.
In 1850, she married Étienne François Fauchier. For a time, she continued to sign her paintings with her birth name, only beginning to use the name 'Mme Fauchier' on her paintings around 1864.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gudin, Henriette 1825 births 1892 deaths 19th-century French painters 19th-century French women artists Painters from Paris French marine artists French women painters