Marguerite-Anne-Rose Delorme (10 September 1876 - 26 July 1946) was a French painter known for her
Orientalist and genre paintings.
Biography
Delorme was born on September 10, 1876, in
Lunéville
Lunéville ( ; German, obsolete: ''Lünstadt'' ) is a commune in the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle.
It is a subprefecture of the department and lies on the river Meurthe at its confluence with the Vezouze.
History
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into an upper middle class family. Her father, Edmond Delorme, was a military doctor and would later found the museum of Lunéville.
She showed an early interest in art. Her early paintings depicted themes of the family environment. She also found inspirations in Brittany where she spent the summer with the Merson family.
She studied under
Raphaël Collin
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,
Paul Leroy
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Luc-Olivier Merson in their private workshops, but was unable to enter the Ecole de Beaux Artes which at the time did not accept female artists. In 1897, Delorme became a member of the ''Sociétaire des Artistes Français'' where she exhibited her paintings, winning Honorable Mention in 1897 and Medal of Third Class in 1901.
In 1905, she won a scholarship which allowed her to travel to Italy. This trip introduced her to different light conditions which had an influence on her style. During the first world war, Delorme began painting the Senegalese riflemen encountered in the "wintering camps". These works were presented in 1921 and she won the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique Prize. Following this, she found inspiration in North African themes by travelling Morocco, where she journeyed around the entire country painting scenes of everyday life.
Delorme died July 26, 1946, in
Lille, France.
Her work has been in the public domain since January 1, 2017.
Legacy
In 2013 the
Musée du château des Lumières held a retrospective of Delorme's work.
Gallery
File:Tableau 2 Marguerite Delorme.jpg
File:Tableau 1 Marguerite Delorme.jpg
See also
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List of Orientalist artists
This is an incomplete list of artists who have produced works on Orientalist subjects, drawn from the Islamic world or other parts of Asia. Many artists listed on this page worked in many genres, and Orientalist subjects may not have formed a m ...
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Orientalism
In art history, literature and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern world. These depictions are usually done by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. In particular, Orientalist p ...
References
External links
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Further reading
''Marguerite Delorme, 1876-1946: vers les lumières du Sud'' by Astrid Mallick, Thérèse-Françoise Crassous, Aziza Doudou
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1876 births
1946 deaths
People from Lunéville
19th-century French painters
20th-century French painters
French women painters
French Orientalist painters
20th-century French women artists
19th-century French women artists
20th-century women painters
19th-century women painters