Zoé Lucie Betty de Rothschild

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Portrait of Zoe's cousin Baroness Hélène de Zuylen de Nyevelt.

Zoé Lucie Betty de Rothschild (born February 25, 1863 in Paris ; died there on August 16, 1916 ), played a role in aristocratic and fashionable life in France and Belgium . She was a painter and draftsman , known under the name Lucie Lambert . She represents the fourth generation of the Rothschild dynasty of the founding couple Mayer Amschel Rothschild and Gutle Schnapper from the ghetto in Frankfurt am Main .

life and work

Lucie Lambert is the daughter of Baron Gustave de Rothschild (1829–1911) and Cécile Anspach (1840–1912). She married the banker Léon Lambert (1851-1919) in Paris in 1882. This marriage had four children:

  • Claude Lambert (born December 19, 1884 in Brussels, † June 27, 1971 in Paris); she married Jean Stern in Brussels in 1904
  • Henri Lambert (1887-1933); he married Johanna von Reininghaus (1899–1960) in 1927
  • Betty Lambert (1894-1969); she married Rudolf von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1881–1962) in 1912 and Johann-Jakob von Bonstetten (1897–1974) in 1921
  • Renée Lambert (1899-1987); she married Baron Paul de Becker Remy (1897–1953) in 1926; Divorce in 1938

List of works

Zoé Lucie Betty de Rothschild (Lucie Lambert) painted and drew portraits , especially in the family environment and in circles in which she frequented or which she received in her own salon in Brussels. Examples of their work:

  • 1892: Portrait of Hélène de Zuylen de Nyevelt de Haar , pastel paint on canvas, private collection
  • 1900: Portrait of Édouard Fétis (1812–1909), pastel color on paper, signed and dated, Brussels, Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique
  • 1907: Portrait of Reynaldo Hahn , pastel color on oiled paper, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Arts du spectacle
  • 1911: Portrait of Monseigneur Duchesne , pastel color, signed and dated

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zoé Lucie Betty de Rothschild on The Geneanet family trees
  2. ↑ The portrait shows the art and music historian, head of the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique and son of the composer François-Joseph Fétis in old age, writing with a goose quill. - Musées royaux de Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Département d'Art Moderne. Catalog inventaire de la peinture modern . Brussels 1984, p. 354 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Rothschild, Zoé Lucie Betty de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rothschild, Zoé Betty de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1916
Place of death Paris