Françoise Basseporte

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Etching: Portrait of Bernard de Jussieu von Basseporte

Madeleine-Françoise Basseporte (born April 28, 1701 in Paris ; † September 6, 1780 there ) was a French painter and engraver whose creative focus was on the representation of botanical motifs.

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Basseporte was born the third child of the wine merchant Jean Basseporte and his wife Madeleine Guyon . Her father died in her childhood, which plunged her family into poverty.

Basseporte received her first art lessons from the painter Paul Robert . This was by Louis-Constantin de Rohan allowed in the palace a painting school for girls set up. When Basseporte was about 10 years old, her mother took a job near the Hôtel de Soubise . There she made friends with the Swiss who let her in without permission. Later she also stayed a lot in the Palais Royal to study the works of art there.

In 1731 Basseporte made an arrangement with the official plant painter of the Jardin du Roi , Claude Aubriet , who was also her teacher, that she was allowed to paint there, but that she was not allowed to sell her works for eight years. But her pictures were so good that the first pictures were included in the Bibliothèque du Roi as early as 1732 .

The Comte de Maurepas was a great admirer of her art and wanted to give her a special allowance, which she refused because she felt she was too rich to rely on government aid. With her art, which she had created outside the Jardin du Roi , Basseporte was able to earn enough to make a living. Besides the king, other statesmen also used themselves to support them financially. In 1735 she came into royal service as Peintre du Roi pour la miniature . Aubrey died in 1741, and Basseporte took the place of her teacher as plant painter at the Jardin du Roi . Furthermore, it was from the French King Louis XV. instructed to give drawing lessons to his daughters.

Basseportes work was extensive. She was commissioned to complete the plant collection of Jean-Baptiste Gaston de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans on parchment. In the following years Basseporte also worked for the chemist Guillaume-François Rouelle , the sculptor Pierre-Hubert Larchevêque and the botanist Bernard de Jussieu . She was also appointed a member of the Académie Royale des Sciences . Painters such as Gerard van Spaendonck and Pierre-Joseph Redouté were inspired by their works.

She died at the age of 79. The funeral took place in the sacristy of St-Médard , and Basseporte was buried in the cemetery there.

literature

  • Dictionnaire critique de biographie et d'histoire , Auguste Jal , Henri Plon  : Paris, 1867
  • Revue universelle des arts , Volume 13, Paris; Bruxelles, Jules Renouard, A. Labroue et Mertens , 1861, pages 139-147
  • Auguste Jal , Dictionnaire critique de biographie et d'histoire: Errata et supplément pour tous les dictionnaires historiques d'après des documents authentiques inédits , Paris, 1867, page 124
  • Emile Bellier de la Chavignerie , Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'école française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours: Architectes, peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs et lithographes , 1882–85, Paris, 1997, volume 1, Page 50

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dictionnaire critique de biographie et d'histoire , digitized version , page 124, accessed on November 21, 2016
  2. ↑ Revue universelle des arts , at Archive.org , pages 139 to 147, accessed on November 21, 2016
  3. ↑ Dictionnaire critique de biographie et d'histoire: Errata et supplément pour tous les dictionnaires historiques d'après des documents authentiques inédits , from Digitalisat , page 124, accessed on December 2, 2016
  4. ↑ Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'école française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours: Architectes, peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs et lithographes , at Digitalisat , page 50, accessed on December 2, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Basseporte, Françoise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Basseporte, Madeleine-Françoise (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1701
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1780
Place of death Paris