Pauline Carolus-Duran

Pauline Carolus-Duran (* January 12, 1839 as Pauline Marie Charlotte Croizette in Saint Petersburg , † June 4, 1912 in Fréjus ) was a French painter .

life and work

Pauline Carolus-Duran: Portrait d'Alice Hoschedé

Pauline Carolus-Duran was born in Saint Petersburg to Achille Jean Baptiste Boucher and Louise Carbonna Croizette. Both parents were French, the mother performed as a dancer at the Mariinsky Theater . Her sister Sophie Croizette later became an actress. Both sisters were acquainted with the actress Sarah Bernhardt , whom Pauline Carolus-Duran described in her memoir as "calm", "cold" and "beautiful".

She received her training as a painter in Edme-Adolphe Fontaine’s studio . While copying paintings in the Louvre , she met the painter Carolus-Duran in 1868 , who supported her in her painting and gave her lessons. Both married that same year. From this marriage there were three children. The daughter Marie-Anne later married the playwright Georges Feydeau .

Pauline Carolus-Duran repeatedly posed for her husband. In the painting Le Baiser ( Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille ) from 1868 both spouses are shown kissing in love, in a portrait of an artist in her studio ( La Salle University Art Museum , Philadelphia) he shows the painter at the easel. In 1869 her husband painted her as La dame au gant ( Musée d'Orsay , Paris), a picture that was a great success in the salon of the same year.

From 1864 to 1875 Pauline Carolus-Duran exhibited several portraits of women in the Salon de Paris . In addition, she painted a number of miniatures and created numerous pastel pictures . The critic Jules Claretie certified her a "talent rare" ( rare talent ). She was accepted into the Société des Artistes Français in 1887 .

literature

Carolus-Duran, Mme Pauline Marie Charlotte, b. Croizette . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 27 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Sarah Bernhardt : My double life: memoirs. Schulze, Leipzig 1908.
Judith Cernogora: Portraits de femmes. Point de vues, Rouen 2016, ISBN 978-2-37195-009-2 .

Web links

Commons : Pauline Carolus-Duran - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Pauline Carolus-Duran In: Benezit Dictionary of Artists.

Individual evidence

↑ The artist is known primarily as Pauline Carolus-Duran . She is mentioned under this name in Judith Cernogora: Portraits de femmes , p. 40. The online database culture.gouv.fr also runs them under this name. It is also listed under the surname Carolus-Duran in the Thieme / Becker artist lexicon and in the Bénézit dictionary. The mention of a painter under her maiden name Croizette, however, is unusual.
↑ Date of death see Archives du Var, commune de Fréjus , list of deaths (acte de décès) No. 41, year 1912 (p. 66/125).
^ Sarah Bernhardt: My double life: Memoirs. P. 42.
^ Judith Cernogora: Portraits de femmes. P. 40.

personal data
SURNAME	Carolus-Duran, Pauline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Croizette, Pauline Marie Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French painter
DATE OF BIRTH	January 12, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH	June 4, 1912
Place of death	Fréjus

[1] The artist is known primarily as Pauline Carolus-Duran . She is mentioned under this name in Judith Cernogora: Portraits de femmes , p. 40. The online database culture.gouv.fr also runs them under this name. It is also listed under the surname Carolus-Duran in the Thieme / Becker artist lexicon and in the Bénézit dictionary. The mention of a painter under her maiden name Croizette, however, is unusual.

[2] Date of death see Archives du Var, commune de Fréjus , list of deaths (acte de décès) No. 41, year 1912 (p. 66/125).

[3] Sarah Bernhardt: My double life: Memoirs. P. 42.

[4] Judith Cernogora: Portraits de femmes. P. 40.