Marie-Éléonore Godefroid-Wikipedia

Marie-Éléonore Godefroid , born June 29, 1778 in Paris ^{[ first ]} where she died the June 9, 1849 ^{[ 2 ] , [ 3 ]} , is a French portrait painter.

She is the granddaughter of the restaurateurs of King Ferdinand-Joseph Godefroid’s paintings (died in 1741) and Marie-Jacob Godefroid (v. 1701-1775) and the daughter and pupil of the painter Joseph-Ferdinand-François Godefroid.

She became a professor of art and music at the Saint-Germain Institute of Jeanne Campan, before resigning to devote herself entirely to painting. She entered the workshop of Baron Gérard, of which she was the friend and which she helped in her works. Also a pupil of Isabey, she painted portraits in oil, watercolor, pastel.

She exhibited a large number of portraits from 1800 in 1800: among others, the Portrait at the foot of the children of Marshal Ney , in 1810, the Portraits of the children of the Duke of Rovigo and the Queen Hortense , in 1812, those children of the Duke of Orleans , in 1819 and 1822 and those of the Duke of Orleans and M. and M ^me guiches , in 1827. We also owe him the portrait of Abd El-Kader, the painter David, Jeanne Campan, Germaine de Staël, Talleyrand or the Marshal of Lauriston. We still know about Godefroid several portraits that have not been exposed, to know: those of M ^me d’Oudenarde, the Countess Latour-Maubourg, of Rodes, famous violin, of Camille Jordan; The latter was engraved by Mulier, etc.

She also painted for the government several copies according to Baron Gérard, portraits of Louis XVIII and Charles X. She obtained several medals at the exhibitions of the exhibitions M. R. ^{[What ?]} , EN 1812 EN 1824.

She dies the June 9, 1849 And next day is buried in the Montparnasse cemetery ^{[ 4 ]} . His remains are exhumed the first ^is February 1869 with those of M ^me Lecerf, née Marie Louise Victoire Gérard, died in 1853, cousin of Baron Gérard whose he had made the portrait in the 1790s ^{[ 5 ]} .

• Bordeaux, Museum of Fine Arts: Bouquet of flowers and grapes on a table , 1798, charcoal blurred on paper, 45.3 × 37.5 cm ^{[ 6 ]} .
• Paris

• Tables by Marie-Éléonore Godefroid
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  Portrait of Madame Campan, with a pupil in oriental suit (Pholoé) , 1807.

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  Portrait of Madame de Staël ,

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  Portrait of Elena viganò , 1841 (Milan, theater museum to Scala)

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  Shéherazade and Chahriar or subject from a thousand and one nights , 1842 lounge

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  Marie Josephine de Savoie, Countess of Provence and Queen of France and Navarre .

• Léon Arbaud, “Mademoiselle Godefroid”, Fine Arts Gazette , 2E Série, 1869, vol. 1, no 1, p. 38-52 He wants you. 2, no 2, p. 512-522 .
• Charles Gabet, Dictionary of artists of the French school at XIX ^{It is} century: painting, sculpture, architecture, engraving, drawing, lithography and musical composition , Paris, Vergne, 1831, p. 316-17 .
• (in) Jennifer Germann , ‘ Tracing Marie-Éléonore Godefroid: Women’s Artistic Networks in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris » , Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture , vol. 41, n ^O 1, 2012 , p. 55–84 (ISSN  1938-6133 , DOI  10.1353/sec.2012.0013 , read online ) .
• Clotilde Schwab-Pourbaix, «  Marie-Eléonore Godefroid and her portraits preserved at the National Museum of Châteaux de Versailles and Trianon », The Louvre Revue and the Museums of France , vol. 58, n ^O 5, December 2008 , p. 63-71 ( résumé ) .