Aimée-Zoë de Mirbel

Aimée-Zoë de Mirbel

Aimée-Zoë de Mirbel (actually Aimée-Zoë Lizinka Rue ; born July 26, 1796 in Cherbourg , † August 29, 1849 in Paris ) was a French miniature painter .

Life

Her parents were Marine Commissioner Gilles-Marie Georges Rue and Eulalie-Zoé Bailly de Monthion. After the father died, the family lived with a brother of the mother, General François Gédéon Bailly de Monthion, in Paris. There Aimée-Zoë Rue studied with the well-known miniature painter Jacques Augustin and probably with François Gérard . After a chance encounter with Louis XVIII. in the Louvre in 1818 he allowed her to make a portrait of him. He then appointed her court miniature painter ("peintre en min. De la chambre du Roi"). She also portrayed his brother Charles X and other members of the French nobility. From 1819 she exhibited portraits in the Salon de Paris , which was later repeated with increasing regularity (from 1838 annually) and where she won several prizes. In 1824 she married the well-known botanist Charles François Brisseau de Mirbel (1776–1854) and has since worked as an artist under her married name.

At the end of the 1820s, Aimée-Zoë de Mirbel opened her own salon in her house on Rue Saint-Dominique, where well-known visual artists and writers such as Stendhal stayed. Her friends included the painter Charles-Émile Callande de Champmartin , who presumably also influenced her painting style. In 1831 she founded an art school for women ("Atelier de Dames"), but also taught men to draw. Her students included Louise Pauline Vaillant, Sidonie Berthon, Maxime David, Gabriel-Aristide Passot and Pierre-Paul de Pommayrac.

She died of cholera in 1849 .

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Portrait of Caroline, Duchesse de Berry (ca.1828)

Aimée-Zoë de Mirbel's works met with a very positive response from their contemporaries. She is considered the leading miniature painter in France from 1835 until her death in 1849. She mainly painted portraits, especially chest pieces. Initially, she mostly chose single-colored backgrounds. Instead, around 1830, she began to portray the subjects in front of atmospheric landscapes, which also influenced English portrait painting.

Works (selection)

• Portrait of Louis XVIII (1818)
• Portrait of Louis XVIII (1819), 15.1 × 12.1 cm, on ivory, Wallace Collection
• Full-figure portrait of Pauline Boyer at the harp (1819), 10.4 cm × 8.5 cm, on ivory, signed lower right: Mlle Lizinka Rüe / 1819 , Louvre
• Portrait of Sir Walter Scott (1826), 14.7 × 10.9 cm, watercolor on paper, Wallace Collection
• Portrait of Charles X (1827)
• Portrait of Fitz-James (Salon de Paris 1827)
• Portrait of James Fenimore Cooper (1827), 13.7 × 10 cm, watercolor on paper, Wallace Collection
• Portrait of Caroline, Duchesse de Berry (ca.1828), 11.1 × 8.7 cm, watercolor on ivory, Wallace Collection
• Portrait of Louise , daughter of Charles-Ferndinand, Duc de Berri (before 1824), diameter 7 cm, watercolor on ivory, Wallace Collection
• Portrait du président Amy (1829, Salon de Paris 1831), oval, 14 × 11.2 cm, on ivory, signed and dated on the right in the frame: Lizinka de Mirbel. 1829 , Louvre
• Portrait of Ludwig Philipp (1834)
• Portrait of Baron François Gérard (1837), oval, 10.4 cm × 8.6 cm, on ivory, Louvre
• Portrait Présumé de Monsieur Prévost (1840), 12 cm × 8.7 cm, on ivory, signed and dated on the right in the frame: Lizinka de Mirbel 1840 , Louvre
• Portrait of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1835), oval, 10.4 cm × 8.5 cm, on ivory, unfinished, Louvre

Awards

• 1822 silver medal from the Salon de Paris
• 1828 gold medal from the Salon de Paris
• 1848 silver medal from the Salon de Paris

literature

• Gabriela Reuss-Bußmann: Mirbel, Lizinka Aimée Zoé de . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 90, de Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-023256-1 , p. 32.