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Joséphine Jeanne Hélène Feillet (2 November 1812 – 9 December 1889) was a French painter and

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 ...

. She is remembered in particular for the vignettes she engraved 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. She was also a competent painter of both portraits and landscapes, exhibiting in the Paris salon from 1836.

Biography

Born on 2 November 1812 in Paris, Joséphine Jeanne Hélène Feillet was the daughter of the painter and lithographer Pierre Jacques Feillet (1794–1855) and Hélène Pernotin. She was introduced to art by her father before studying portraiture under the Dutch artist

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(1795–1858). Her elder sister,

Blanche Hennebutte-Feillet Blanche Hennebutte-Feillet (1815–1886) was a French lithographer and painter. She is remembered in particular for the lithographs she created for albums illustrating Bayonne and the Basque Country. As a painter, she exhibited in the Paris sal ...

(1815–1886), was also a lithographer. In 1929, during a visit to

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with her father and sister, she created lithographs as illustrations in Spanish journals. She continued the work, even after the family had settled in

in 1834. In particular, she made five engravings for ''El Artista'', two illustrating poems by

José de Espronceda José Ignacio Javier Oriol Encarnación de Espronceda y Delgado (25 March 1808 – 23 May 1842) was a Romantic Spanish poet, one of the most representative authors of the 19th century. He was influenced by Eugenio de Ochoa, Federico Madrazo, Al ...

and three for the poetry of

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. They are considered to be among the finest romantic illustrations of the period. From 1835 to 1940, Feillet created six lithographs to illustrate Félix Morel's ''Bayonne, vues historiques et descriptives''. She then collaborated with her sister, creating an extensive series of illustration's for her brother-in-law, Charles-Henri Hennebutte. They appeared in his albums for tourists: ''Album des deux frontières'' and ''Guide du voyageur de Bayonne à Saint-Sébastien''. Feillet was nevertheless primarily a painter, exhibiting at the Paris salon from 1936. Notable examples of her work include a portrait of Juana Cano (1836), "Vue des environs de Bayonne, prise au Boucau" (1839), "Espagnole à l’église" and "Gitana en San Isidro, environs de Madrid". Her painting of "Arrivée à Bayonne du duc et de la duchesse d’Orléans", painted 1839–40, was exhibited at the Salon in 1942. She was also commissioned to paint works to decorate the chapel of the Military Hospital in Bayonne and the church at Jasse en Béarn. Income from her art work enabled her to build a large residence overlooking the beach in

Biarritz Biarritz ( , , , ; Basque also ; oc, Biàrritz ) is a city on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the French Basque Country in southwestern France. It is located from the border with Spain. ...

. She was also able to buy the Daguerre property in Brindos where she lived with her father. She died in Biarritz on 9 December 1889.

References

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