Eugénie Alexandrine Marie Salanson (15 December 1836,

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- 23 July 1912, Saint-Pair-sur-Mer) was a French painter in the

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style.

Biography

Her father came from

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to Albert to serve as a

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collector. The family later moved to

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, where her twin sisters were born, then on to

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, where her father had been appointed Receiver (head tax collector). It was near there, in

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, that she took her first art lessons from a local artist named Crocher.biographical notes from ''Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'école française''
@ Gallica. She then went to Paris to continue her studies but, at that time, the

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did not accept female applicants, so she attended the

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, where she studied with

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. Later, she took private lessons from

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. In 1877, she exhibited her portrait of Cogniet at the

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, which brought her numerous commissions. The following year, she participated in the Exposition Universelle. Soon, she was exhibiting throughout France and abroad. Braun, Clément & Co made reproductions of her most popular works and sold them internationally until 1928, when the company went out of business. In 1882 she,

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, Jessie Lipscomb and others set up their own studio on the . By the end of the 1880s, she was able to acquire the "Villa Saint-Joseph" in the growing seaside resort of Saint-Pair-sur-Mer. This inspired her to create her best known paintings, depicting the young fisherwomen who worked nearby. Her painting "A marée basse" (At Low tide) was one of the works featured in ''

Women Painters of the World ''Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413–1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day'', assembled and edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow, is a book that lists an overview of prominent women painters up to 1905, the year of ...

'' by

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(1905); one of the first books that treated female artists as worthy of serious attention.
Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day
', by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905 She divided her time between Paris and her villa, and died there at the age of seventy-five. Most of her works are in private collections.

Selected paintings

File:Marquise de Croix.jpg, ''The Marquise de Croix'' (1889) File:Eugénie Marie Salanson - Young Shepherdess.jpg, ''Young Shepherdess'' File:Eugénie Marie Salanson - The Shrimp Fisher.jpg, ''The Shrimp Fisher'' (1882) File:A marée basse.jpeg, ''At Low Tide'' (1890)

References

External links

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ArtNet: More works by Salanson
{{DEFAULTSORT:Salanson, Eugenie Marie 1836 births 1912 deaths People from Albert, Somme Académie Julian alumni 19th-century French painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French women painters 19th-century French women painters