Félicie Schneider or Felicie Fournier (1831 – 1888) was a French portrait painter. Schneider was born in

Saint-Cloud Saint-Cloud () is a French commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, from the centre of Paris. Like other communes of Hauts-de-Seine such as Marnes-la-Coquette, Neuilly-sur-Seine and Vaucresson, Saint-Cloud is one of France's wealthie ...

and first learned to paint from her father, Amable Nicolas Fournier, and later went to the school run by Leon Cogniet. She showed works at the

Paris Salon The Salon (), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art event in the Western world. At the ...

from 1849. Her work ''The Last Survivors of a Family'' was included in the book ''

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 ...

''.Women Painters of the World
on Project Gutenberg File:Félicie Schneider - The Last Survivors of a Family.jpg, ''The Last Survivors of a Family'' File:Félicie Schneider - The Little Nurse N08611-867-lr-1.jpg, ''The Little Nurse''

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1831 births 1888 deaths People from Saint-Cloud French women painters 19th-century French women artists {{France-painter-stub