Élodie La Villette

Élodie La Villette, born Elodie Jacquier (April 12, 1848 Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) – 1917 Saint-Pierre-Quiberon), was a French painter. She is said to be one of the few women to have an artistic career when many routes were denied to them.[1]

Élodie La Villette
Born
Elodie Jacquier

(1848-04-12)12 April 1848
Strasbourg
Died1917
Saint-Pierre-Quiberon
NationalityFrench
Known forpainting

Life

Elodie/Ella La Villette was born in 1848 to an army doctor and his wife. They moved frequently and her younger sister, Caroline, was born four years later.[1]

During the 1860s, the two sisters, Ella and Caroline Jacquier, took drawing classes with the painter Ernest Coroller at the Lycée Dupuy-de-Lôme. This influenced both their careers, since they both became painters, known under the respective names of Elodie La Villette and Caroline Espinet (1844-1912).[2] She married in 1860, and her sister followed suit in 1868. They painted together. This was not a mere hobby, as they exhibited their work.

She had a painting accepted by the Salon in 1870 and was awarded a third class medal in 1875. The following year her painting "La grève de Lohic et de l'île de la Souris près de Lorient" was bought by the Musée d'Orsay. Her painting won a bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1889.[1] La Villette exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[3]

Élodie La Villette, who received the advice of Jean-Baptiste Corot in 1874, carries off "marine art" sensitive to light effects which are reminiscent of both Courbet's realism and the virtuosity of Boudin".[4]

Exhibitions
  • In 1991, she was the artist of honor of the fair organized by the Lorient Society of Fine Arts, and had a retrospective tribute in 2007.
  • In 2014, the Museum of Fine Arts Morlaix devoted its summer exhibition to the two sisters, Elodie La Villette and Caroline Espinet.[1][5]

Works
Larmor-Plage (1879)

Bibliography
  • François Lotz, "Louise Madeleine Élodie La Villette", in Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne, vol. 23, p. 2257
  • Marie-Madeleine Martinie (2008), Elodie La Villette, Caroline Espinet: deux soeurs peintres, Hengoun, ISBN 978-2-916976-02-0

References
  1. Denise Delouche, Elodie La Villette & Caroline Espinet, sisters and painters, 2014, lespetitsmaitres, Retrieved August 2016
  2. « Deux sœurs peintres : Élodie La Villette, Caroline Espinet » de M. Martinie, paru en octobre 2008, Collection : L'art du temps.
  3. Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  4. Marie-Paule Piriou, Femmes artistes en Bretagne 1850-1950, revue ArMen, n°195, July–August 2013.
  5. "Un été avec Elodie La Villette et Caroline Espinet". lecourrier-leprogres.fr (in French). 2014-08-22. Retrieved August 21, 2016.
  6. "La grève de Lohic et l'île des Souris, près de Lorient. La mer étale". Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  7. "seaweed". materialbrittany.blogspot.ca. July 24, 2013. Retrieved August 21, 2016.
  • Clara Erskine Clement Waters, Women in the Fine Arts, 1904, p. 206
  • Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays, vol. 8, pp. 13 440, ISBN 978-2-70003010-5, Bénézit
  • "accueil general". SiteSLBA. Archived from the original on 2012-02-11. Retrieved 2016-08-20.
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