Thérèse-Marie-Rosine Geraldy (18 June 1884 – 31 July 1965) was a French portrait artist.

Life

Born at Paris, Geraldy was the daughter of Louis Paul Lucien Geraldy, an artist, by his marriage to Marie-Anne-Elizabeth Delsarte, a drawing mistress, and was one of four children. She was a granddaughter of the musician

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, a cousin of the sculptor

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, and related to the composer

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. Educated at the

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by Marcel Baschet and

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, she was also a pupil of her aunt Marie Magdeleine Real del Sarte. As a painter, she specialized in

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ure.Thérèse-Marie-Rosine Géraldy (1884-1965)
at philippybucellyestrees.co.uk, accessed 11 November 2015 In 1906 the

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gave Geraldy an honourable mention, as reported in ''

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'' and '' Le Radical'' on 30 May 1906. On 30 April 1908 '' Comœdia'' warmly reviewed her portrait of the politician Paul Escudier. In 1910 she was awarded the Prix Galimard-Jaubert, worth the substantial sum of 4,800 Francs payable over four years. In 1912 she painted Lord de Saumarez, of

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. Other subjects included Helen Templeton Pogue, the Duchess of Nemours, and the Countess Rosario Schiffner de Larrechea de Zubov. In 1939 she was appointed to the

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon, ...

, the jewel of which was bestowed on her by her old painting master Marcel Baschet, commander of the Order. She died at Paris on 31 July 1965.

Exhibitions

*1907 at Salon of the

*1908 at Salon of the Société des Artistes Français *1909 at Salon of the Société des Artistes Français *1910 at Salon of the Société des Artistes Français, showing two portraits for which the

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Foundation awarded her the Prix Galimard-Jaubert *1925 at Salon of the Société des Artistes Français *1933 at Salon of the Société des Artistes Français, portrait of Georges Krier *1937 at Exposition internationale (Silver medallist)list of exhibitors
, Exposition internationale 1937

Notes

External links

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at geneanet.org

at culture.gouv.fr
Thérèse Geraldy
works at Picasaweb {{DEFAULTSORT:Geraldy, Therese Marie Rosine 1884 births 1965 deaths 20th-century French painters French portrait painters French women painters 20th-century French women artists Painters from Paris Recipients of the Legion of Honour