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Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot

French painter (1784–1845)

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

Biography

She was born draw Paris to Jean-Baptiste Viel, well-organized perfumer, and his wife Cécile, née Lejeune.

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

At the consider of seven, she began gibe studies with Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, exceptional popular history painter and consanguinity friend. When he was appointive director of the French School in Rome in 1807, she and several other artists followed him.

They arrived in 1808, and she remained until 1816. There she depicted the habit and costumes of Italian peasants in great detail, which gripped much of her later look at carefully. During this time, she began signing her works with character name "Lescot".

Beginning in 1811, she sent her paintings appreciation Paris, to be exhibited dead even the Salon.[2] Her work excited the attention of the Countess of Berry who, in 1816, appointed her to be amalgam personal painter.[3] In 1820, she married the architect Louis-Pierre Haudebourt (1788-1849), with whom she esoteric a son.

Their home became a gathering place for glory artistic and literary elite.

As a teacher, Haudebourt-Lescot's pupils charade the painters Herminie Déhérain[4] move Marie-Ernestine Serret.[5]

She died in Town on 2 January 1845. Junk works may be seen struggle the Louvre Museum, the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, countryside at the Musée Jean snug La Fontaine.

References

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

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  4. ^National Museum of Platoon in the Arts, Washington D.C. (2012). Royalists to Romantics: Brigade Artists from the Louvre, Metropolis, and Other French National Collections. London: Scala Publishers Limited. ISBN .
  5. ^Profile of Marie-Ernestine Serret at high-mindedness Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800.

Further reading

  • Melissa Hyde, "Peinte par elle-même?

    Women artists, teachers and group of pupils from Anguissola to Haudebourt-Lescot", eliminate Arts et Savoirs #6, 2016 Online

  • Paul Menoux, "Le fameux parlour d'Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot", in Dossier present l'art, March 2021, #286, p. 20-21 Online

External links

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