Nélie Jacquemart
Nélie Barbe Hyacinthe Jacquemart (born July 25, 1841 in Paris , † May 14, 1912 in Paris) was a French portrait painter and art collector .
Life
Nélie Jacquemart, a student of Léon Cogniet , painted a Saint Eugène for the parish church of St-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas as early as 1867 and exhibited her first portrait in 1868, which was followed by a number of pictures of well-known people. Among those portrayed are the Minister of Education Victor Duruy (1869), Marshal François Certain de Canrobert (1870), Adolphe Thiers (1871), Minister of Justice Jules Dufaure (1873), Count Charles Cousin-Montauban , Marquis of Montesquieu and Duke of Decazes (1878) to highlight. In 1872 she met Édouard André at a portrait session , whom she finally married in 1881. She later built up an art collection and administered the inheritance after her husband's death in 1894.
In 1912, she bequeathed both the Jacquemart-André Museum and the Chaalis Monastery to the Institut de France .
literature
- Jacquemart, Nélie . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 279 f. Digitized
- Jacquemart, Nélie : General Artist Lexicon. Life and work of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller. Edited by Hans Wolfgang Singer . 2nd volume. 5th unaltered edition. Literary publishing house Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1921, p. 249. Digitized
Web links
- Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris
- Information on Nélie Jacquemart in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jacquemart, Nélie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jacquemart, Cornélia Barbe Hyacinthe (maiden name); Jacquemart-André, Nelie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1912 |
| Place of death | Paris |