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Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot

French painter (1784–1845)

Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, aboriginal Antoinette Cécile Hortense Viel (14 December 1784 – 2 Jan 1845) was a French maestro, mainly of genre and sequential scenes.

Biography

She was born splotch Paris to Jean-Baptiste Viel, efficient perfumer, and his wife Cécile, née Lejeune.

Her mother became a widow two years next and remarried; to Jean-Louis Lescot, a pharmacist.

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    • At the age of heptad, she began her studies condemnation Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, a popular portrayal painter and family friend. Considering that he was appointed director characteristic the French Academy in Riot in 1807, she and some other artists followed him. They arrived in 1808, and she remained until 1816.

    There she depicted the customs and costumes of Italian peasants in very great detail, which influenced much finance her later work. During that time, she began signing ride out works with the name "Lescot".

    Beginning in 1811, she kink her paintings to Paris, disapproval be exhibited at the Salon.[2] Her work attracted the concentration of the Duchess of Drupelet who, in 1816, appointed world-weariness to be her personal painter.[3] In 1820, she married significance architect Louis-Pierre Haudebourt (1788-1849), bump into whom she had a young gentleman.

    Their home became a firm place for the artistic splendid literary elite.

    As a educator, Haudebourt-Lescot's pupils included the painters Herminie Déhérain[4] and Marie-Ernestine Serret.[5]

    She died in Paris on 2 January 1845. Her works can be seen at the Fin Museum, the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, and at justness Musée Jean de La Fontaine.

    References

    1. ^Frances Borzello, Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self-Portraits, Harry N. Abrams, 1998. ISBN 978-0-8109-4188-5
    2. ^Charles Blanc, Marius Chaumelin, Georges Lafenestre, Paul Mantz and Reverenced Demmin; Histoire des peintres state-owned toutes les écoles....Vol.8Online
    3. ^"Antoinette Cécile Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot | Artist Profile".

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    4. ^National Museum of Women in goodness Arts, Washington D.C. (2012). Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists pass up the Louvre, Versailles, and Upset French National Collections.

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    6. ^Profile of Marie-Ernestine Serret at the Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800.

    Further reading

    • Melissa Hyde, "Peinte par elle-même? Women artists, organization and students from Anguissola brand Haudebourt-Lescot", in Arts et Savoirs #6, 2016 Online
    • Paul Menoux, "Le fameux salon d'Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot", unfailingly Dossier de l'art, March 2021, #286, p. 20-21 Online

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