Hélène Feillet
Joséphine Jeanne Hélène Feillet (2 November 1812 – 9 December 1889) was a French painter and lithographer. She is remembered in particular for the vignettes she engraved for albums illustrating Bayonne 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 Ary Scheffer (1795–1858). Her elder sister, Blanche Hennebutte-Feillet (1815–1886), was also a lithographer. In 1929, during a visit to Madrid with her father and sister, she created lithographs as illustrations in Spanish journals. She continued the work, even after the family had settled in Bayonne in 1834. In particular, she made five engravings for ''El Artista' ...
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