{"id":3045,"date":"2023-03-08T20:13:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T20:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2023-03-20T10:19:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T10:19:19","slug":"renowned-french-women-artists-where-to-see-their-art-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/2023\/03\/08\/renowned-french-women-artists-where-to-see-their-art-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Renowned French Women Artists & Where to See their Art in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

All too frequently overshadowed by their male counterparts, women artists have gradually carved out their rightful place on France\u2019s art scene. This foundation was laid by courageous women artists of the late-19th century, with more following little by little over the course of the 19th and into the 20th century. Here are ten of the most renowned artists who helped pave the way for today\u2019s generation of women artists in France.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Portrait of Marie Antoinette, Elisabeth Vige\u0301e Le Brun \u00a9 Cha\u0302teau de Versailles, Dist. RMN : \u00a9 Christophe Fouin<\/p><\/div>\n

Elisabeth Vig\u00e9e Le Brun (1755-1842)<\/b><\/h3>\n

Elisabeth Vig\u00e9e Le Brun was one of the most renowned artists of the end of the 18th and first half of the 19th century. A child prodigy, her talent for drawing was noticed at a young age by her father, a pastel artist, who let her dabble with his supplies. After several years at a convent school, she began an apprenticeship with an artist. A professional artist by age 14, within only a few years she began painting high-level aristocrats and she was one of the first women accepted into a French painting academy, or guild. Her work soon attracted the attention of the royal court (then looking to rehabilitate the Queen’s reputation); she became the Queen\u2019s official portraitist and painted her over thirty times. Fleeing during the Revolution, she was able to return to her artistic career under the Napoleonic regime.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where to see her art: <\/b>Mus\u00e9e du Louvre<\/span><\/a> (French Painting Department), Versailles (le Petit Trianon)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Portrait de Rosa Bonheur dans son atelier au ch\u00e2teau de By
\u00a9Chateau de Rosa Bonheur<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Also the daughter of an artist father, Rosa Bonheur\u2019s love of animal paintings began as a child and continued throughout her career. She studied animals in the suburbs of Paris, the Bois de Boulogne and the National Veterinary Institute. Bonheur’s first major success was <\/span>Ploughing in the Nivernais, <\/span><\/i>on display at the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, and was awarded a gold medal in 1849. Adored by the US market, Bonheur was the first female French artist to be awarded the Legion of Honour.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where to see her art:<\/strong> Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, <\/span>Chateau de Rosa Bonheur <\/span><\/a>(near Fontainebleau) <\/span><\/p>\n

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Le jardin \u00e0 Bougival (1884) Berthe Morisot, and top image: Self-Portrait (1889), Berthe Morisot, both Mus\u00e9e Marmatton-Monet<\/p><\/div>\n

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A rebellious artist from her early days, Berthe began painting alongside her sister. A close friend of \u00c9douard Manet, the two exchanged frequently on art; Morisot would later marry his brother. She was one of the founding members of les \u201cArtistes Anonymes Associ\u00e9s,\u201d a group of innovative artists including Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, and Edgar Degas who would later be called the impressionists. Today her work features in many of the world\u2019s most prestigious museums.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where to see her art:<\/strong> Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay and the <\/span>Mus\u00e9e Marmottan-Monet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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The Blue Room (1923), Centre Pompidou – Mus\u00e9e National d’Art Moderne<\/p><\/div>\n

Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Interested in drawing as a child, Marie-Cl\u00e9mentine Valadon, later called Suzanne, came from a poor family and was obligated to begin work aged 11. After an accident at the circus where she was an acrobatist, she started modeling for artists including Berthe Morisot, Renoir, Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec. These encounters encouraged her to pursue her own artistic career. Known for her bold nudes as well as portraits, still lifes, and landscape, she became the first woman painter admitted to the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 nationale des Beaux-Arts. Valadon and her son, the notable painter Maurice Utrillo, are celebrated at the Montmartre Museum, part of which comprises their former studio.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where to see her art:<\/strong> Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, Centre Pompidou and Mus\u00e9e de Montmartre<\/span><\/p>\n

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La R\u00e9p\u00e9tition (1936), Marie Laurencin, Centre Pompidou
Marie Laurencin (1883-1956)<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

A multi-talented artist born in Paris, Marie Laurencin got her start in art by learning the trade of porcelain painting at the \u00c9cole de S\u00e8vres before she moved on to the Acad\u00e9mie Humbert. It was here where she met Braque and Picabia, steering her in the direction of modernism. A fauvist before becoming a prominent cubist, Laurencin became a popular society portraitist after the Great War. She also dabbled in theatre set design and costumes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where to see her art<\/strong>: Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Orangerie and Centre Pompidou<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Louise

Louise Bourgeois, Spider (Araign\u00e9e) (1995). Don de la SAMAM en 1995 \u00a9 The Easton Foundation \/ ADAGP, Paris 2020 \/ Julien Vidal \/ Parisienne de Photographie<\/p><\/div>\n

Louise Bourgeois (1911 \u2013 2010)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

One of the most renowned artists of the 20th century, Louise Bourgeois might be<\/span> best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, however, her work evolved dramatically over her long career. After her mother\u2019s death, <\/span>Bourgeois abandoned the study of maths<\/span> to pursue art, first at the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts and the \u00c9cole du Louvre, before moving on to independent academies in Montparnasse and Montmartre. It was after moving to New York with her husband, an art scholar, in the late 1930s that her career and individual style began to flourish, especially when she joined the American Abstract Artists Group in the 1950s.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Where to see her art:<\/strong> Centre Pompidou and the Modern Art Museum of the City of Paris<\/span><\/p>\n

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Stravinksy Fountain ( 1983), Niki de Saint Phalle, Photo: Clement Dorval \/ Ville de Paris<\/p><\/div>\n

Niki de Saint-Phalle (1930-2002)\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Born in France and raised in the United States, Niki de Saint-Phalle is best remembered for her monumental, curvaceous and colourful sculptures. Nevertheless, Saint-Phalle was also a painter, filmmaker and illustrator. The self-taught artist portrayed her traumatic childhood through violent assemblages shot by firearms, which caught the attention of the international art world. She collaborated with other notable artists like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Jean Tinguely. Her sculptural commissions decorate public spaces around the world. In Paris, her most notable work on display is the colourful, nouveau realist Stravinksky Fountain created with her husband Jean Tinguely in 1983.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Where to see her art:<\/strong> Centre Pompidou.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Sophie

Sophie Calle, Gallerie Perrotin, Paris<\/p><\/div>\n

Sophie Calle (1953- )<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Born in the Parisian suburb of Malakoff and raised in the South of France, Sophie Calle is one of the most prominent living artists on the international art stage. A globe-trotting feminist activist in her youth, Calle returned to Paris and turned towards art. Known for her very personal work exploring identity, Calle crisscrosses genres from writing to photography and from installation work to conceptual art. She frequently exhibits in contemporary art galleries around the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Where to see her art:<\/strong> <\/span>Gallerie Perrotin<\/span><\/a> (75003)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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