Zoé Goyet (died 8 July 1869) was a French portrait painter, pastel artist, and teacher. Her works were exhibited in 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 ...

from 1834 to 1841. She was the wife of painter

Eugène Goyet Eugène Goyet (February 7, 1798—May 7, 1857), was a French artist. Beginning in 1827 his work was regularly selected for exhibition in the annual Paris Salon. He achieved his greatest success as a painter of religious subjects, with his paintings ...

and daughter-in-law of painter

Jean-Baptiste Goyet Jean-Baptiste Goyet or J.-B. Goyet (10 May 1779 — 20 June 1854) was a self-taught French artist. Beginning in 1827 his work was regularly selected for exhibition in the annual Paris Salon. His genre paintings—variously sentimental, satiri ...

Career

Zoé Goyet was a great-granddaughter of the influential Parisian art dealer and engraver

Jean Mariette Jean Mariette (22 June 1660 – 19 September 1742) was a French engraver and print dealer and publisher. He was the father of Pierre-Jean Mariette.Walsh 1996. Ancestry and early life Jean Mariette was born in Paris,Benezit 2006. the son of Pier ...

.Audiffred, Hyacinthe
"Nécrologie: Eugène Goyet"
''Revue des Beaux-Arts'', tome 8, 1857, pp. 237-8."Chronique, Documents, Faits Divers"
''Revue Universelle des Arts'', tome 5, 1857, p. 377. Her marriage to Eugène Goyet brought her into the household and atelier he shared with his father,

, at 3 Rue de l'Abbaye in Paris. All three were artists, exhibiting their works at the prestigious annual

and exhibitions in other cities in France. Zoé exhibited 14 portraits at the Salon from 1834 to 1839 and in 1841; she received a medal in 1837. In 1837, after the Goyets moved to 25 Rue de la Chausée-D'Antin, they set up their studios next door at number 27, where Eugène and Zoé also taught drawing and painting to female students. At least one graduate of her atelier exhibited at the Paris Salon, in 1864. In 1838 she painted a portrait of the popular novelist

Michel Masson Auguste-Michel-Benoît Gaudichot pseudonym: Michel Masson (31 July 1800 – 12 thermidor an VIII- – 23 April 1883) was a French playwright, journalist and novelist of the 19th century. Biography A worker's son, he began acting at age 10 and ...

that was widely reproduced in his books.

Jules Janin Jules Gabriel Janin (16 February 1804 – 19 June 1874) was a French writer and critic. Life and career Born in Saint-Étienne (Loire), Janin's father was a lawyer, and he was educated first at St. Étienne, and then at the lycée Louis-le-Gra ...

praised her pastel portraits at the Salon of 1839: "In terms of energetic portraits, notice, I beg you, those of Mme. Zoé Goyet; one would say she was a pupil of M.

Ingres Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( , ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassicism, Neoclassical Painting, painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic ...

, there is so much in her drawing. Mme. Zoé Goyet brings the greatest care and the most exacting discernment to this work." Eugène Goyet died in 1857. In 1859, Zoé Goyet completed her husband's final commission—of a painting of Christ at Calvary, for La chapelle Notre-Dame du Calvaire, Garbriac, Averyon, France—marking the end of over three decades in which the three Goyets played a prominent role in the world of French art. Zoé died in 1869.

Gallery

File:Zoe Goyet--Portrait of a well-dressed man--signed--Swann Gallery 2019.jpg, Undated and untitled portrait, pastel, private collectionIf this work is authentically by Goyet, it may be noted that she here signs her first name with a diaeresis (Zoë) rather than an

accent aigu The acute accent (), , is a diacritic used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts. For the most commonly encountered uses of the accent in the Latin and Greek alphabets, precomposed cha ...

(Zoé), as it is uniformly found in contemporary printed sources. Possible Zoë Goyet signature

File:Zoé Goyet--Portrait of a seated man.png, Zoé Goyet, portrait of a seated man, pastel, private collection File:Zoe Goyet--portrait of a woman with folded hands.png, Portrait of a seated woman, pastel private collection File:Zoe Goyet--Marechal-Kellermann.jpg, Portrait of

François Christophe de Kellermann François-Étienne-Christophe Kellermann or de Kellermann, 1st Duke of Valmy (german: Franz Stephan Christoph Edler von Kellermann; 28 May 1735 – 23 September 1820) was a French military commander, later the Général d'Armée, a Marshal of ...

Musée de l'Armée The Musée de l'Armée (; "Army Museum") is a national military museum of France located at Les Invalides in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. It is served by Paris Métro stations Invalides (Paris Métro and RER), Invalides, Varenne (Paris Métro ...

, Paris File:Zoé Goyet--Christ at Calvary--La chapelle Notre-Dame du Calvaire, Gabriac, Aveyron, France-- 1859.jpg, ''Christ at Calvary'', La chapelle Notre-Dame du Calvaire, Gabriac, Aveyron, France (1859) File:Gabriac chapelle ND du Calvaire.jpg, La chapelle Notre-Dame du Calvaire, Gabriac, Averyon, France

References

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