Lise Cloquet (also known as Anne-Louise Cloquet; 1788 (Paris) –30 October 1860 (Paris))
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was a French
botanical painter.
Cloquet was taught to draw by her father
and was influenced by the botanical illustrator
Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (, 10 July 1759 – 19 June 1840), was a painter and botanist from Belgium, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at the Château de Malmaison, many of which were published as large, coloured s ...
.
32 of her works, including one of a white chrysanthemum, from 1820 are currently housed at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in
Upperville, Virginia
Upperville is a small unincorporated town in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States, along U.S. Route 50 fifty miles from downtown Washington, D.C., near the Loudoun County line. Founded in the 1790s along Pantherskin Creek, it was originally nam ...
.
Family
Her father, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Cloquet, was an illustrator and engraver.
Her brother, Jules Cloquet, was a doctor.
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1788 births
1860 deaths
French women artists
19th-century French illustrators
Botanical illustrators