Marie-denise villers young woman drawing (1801)
Marie-Denise Villers
French artist (–)
Marie-Denise Villers (née Lemoine; – 19 August ) was a French painter who specialized in portraits.
Life
Marie-Denise Lemoine was born in Paris to Charles Lemoine and Marie-Anne Rouselle. Two of her three sisters, Marie-Victoire Lemoine (–) and Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou (–), as well as distant cousin Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet (–), were all trained as portraitists.
Within her family, Marie-Denise was known as "Nisa." The family lived on the Rue Traversière-Saint-Honoré (today Rue Molière) near the Palais Royal in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.
Little is known about Marie-Denise's childhood, however it is likely that through her much older sisters and cousin she would have been introduced to the salons of Paris. It was in the Paris Salon of that she met the artist Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, and also began to take painting lessons with François Gérard and Jacques-Louis David.[citation needed]
In , she married an architecture student, Michel-Jean-Maximilien Villers.
Her husband supported her art, during a time when many women were forced to give up professional art work after marriage. Her life between the time of her last dated painting () and her death in remains unknown.
Career
She first exhibited artwork at the Paris Salon of the Year VII (). Villers' most famous painting, Portrait of Charlotte du Val d'Ognes () has been attributed to various artists and shown under a variety of titles through its long history.
Originally, the portrait was in the du Val d'Ognes family for generations, where it had been attributed to Jacques-Louis David. When the Metropolitan Museum of Art bought it in , it was known as "the New York David." However, in curator Charles Stirling hypothesized that it was actually painted by a "little known woman."[5] For decades afterwards, it was stripped of its title and artist, as per the Met's policy.
In , Margaret Oppenheimer successfully argued that Villers painted the work.
Young woman definition It was originally attributed to the famed Neoclassical painter, Jacques-Louis David , but after studying the history of its exhibition, they realized he could not have painted this. We are left to wonder what is on her paper, but the way she stares intently out to the viewer makes me think she is drawing me, and now you, and also whoever else is reading this post, and whoever is looking at this right now at the Met Museum. If You Liked This…. Curators and others talk about the art in the museum in relation to their own lives.Furthermore, art historian Anne Higonnet argued in that the work is a self-portrait.[6]
Villers exhibited Study of a young woman sitting on a window and two other works at the Salon of , followed in by a genre painting entitled A child in its cradle and A Study of a Woman from Nature.[7] Her last known work is a portrait of the Duchess of Angoulême, exhibited in [8]
Works
- La Peinture.
Une Bacchante endormie, (Painting. A Bacchante sleeping)
- Étude d'une jeune femme assise sur une fenêtre, – (Study of a young woman sitting on a window)
- Portrait of Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (attribution), previously known as Young woman drawing, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
- Étude d'une femme à sa toilette.
portrait, (Study of a woman at her toilet.)
- "Une étude de femme d'après nature," Presumed Portrait of Madame Soustras, Paris, Louvre Museum, [7]
- Un enfant dans son berceau, entrainé par les eaux de l'inondation du mois de Nivôse an X, (A child in its cradle, driven by the flood waters of the month X year Nivôse)
- Un enfant dans son berceau, entrainé par les eaux de l'inondation du mois de Nivôse an X, taille réduite de l'œuvre de , (A child in its cradle, driven by the flood waters of the month Nivôse year X)
- Une petite fille blonde, tenant une corbeille de jonc remplie de fleurs; before (A little blonde girl holding a basket filled with flowers ring)
- Portrait de la duchesse d'Angoulême, (Portrait of the Duchess of Angoulême)
Gallery
References
Citations
- ^Oppenheimer, Margaret A.
(). "Unraveling a Myth: A Misidentified Portrait by Marie-Victoire Lemoine". Source: Notes in the History of Art.
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- ^"Through a Louvre Window". Journal a journal of eighteenth-century art and culture. Retrieved
- ^Higonnet, Anne. "White Dress, Broken Glass: Starting All Over Again in the Age of Revolution." Norma Hugh Lifton Lecture.Marie-denise villers young woman drawing (1801) Or perhaps it represents the separation between two, at the time conflicting, paths in life: the aspiring artist in the foreground and the domestic married life in the background. Thank you for such revealing analyse. Awsome and very informative Thankyou Dan Reply. Posts etc.
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