Isabelle Pinson
Isabelle Pinson | |
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 Self-Portrait (1823), depicting her wearing a calico dress, owned by the Darblay family until it was sold at auction in July 2006.[1] | |
| Born | Isabelle Proteau 26 June 1769 |
| Died | 18 November 1855 (aged 86) |
| Other names | Madame Pinson |
| Known for | Painting |
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| Mother | Marie Bourdereau |
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Isabelle Pinson (/ˈpɪnsən/, French: [pɛ̃sɔ̃] ⓘ; née Proteau; 26 June 1769 – 18 November 1855), commonly known as Madame Pinson, was a French genre and portrait painter. She is best recognized for her artwork titled "The Fly Catcher" (1508), which was prominently exhibited at the Snite Museum of Art in 2019.[2]
Biography
[edit]Birth and background
[edit]Isabelle was born on 26 June 1769 in Paris, France[3] and was baptized at the Church of Saint-Sulpice.[4] She was named in honor of her godmother and her mother's employer, Isabelle de Jaucourt (1703–1783).[4] Before her birth, her parents, Fabien Proteau and his wife, Marie Bourdereau, married in 1768.[4][5]
Marie was a native of Brinon-sur-Beuvron. Eleven years prior to her birth, in 1758, Marie, along with her six siblings, were taken in by Isabelle de Jaucourt to live in her private mansion on Rue de la Chaise, where she took the role of chambermaid.[4][6]
Fabien was a Burgundian from Genlis, Côte-d'Or; he served as a valet to the Viscount of Jaucourt until his passing on 17 April 1771.[7]
Education
[edit]After the death of her father, Isabelle was taken under the care of her godmother.[5] Having shown an aptitude for drawing at an early age,[8] she received lessons from renowned painters Jean-Baptiste Regnault, François-André Vincent, and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard.[4][5][9] It's possible Isabelle met Jean-Antoine Houdon from her early childhood with the Jaucourt family.[10][note 1]
Marriage
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On 19 July 1792, Isabelle discreetly married André-Pierre Pinson in a property he had purchased from Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans in the Clichy-en-Launois (now Clichy-sous-Bois).[11] She was 23 and he was 32 years her senior.[11]
Career
[edit]As a painter, Isabelle significantly distinguished herself as a portraitist. In particular, she produced portraits of medical personalities.[11] She participated in the Salon for the first time in 1796, presenting three portraits.[12] At the Salon of 1801, Isabelle exhibited a painting of Jacques-René Tenon.[11]
Furthermore, a work by Isabelle Pinson is part of the collections of the Palace of Versailles. It depicts man of letters, Pierre-Noël Famin.[13] It was offered at the museum in 1839 by Pierre-Jules Jollivet, a grandson of one of the sisters of Famin.[13]
Later life and death
[edit]Isabelle Proteau
Widow of A.P. Pinson
Anatomist
Perfectly loved
by a virtuous husband,
her constant thought was to make him happy
Since then, she has honored his cherished memory
Pray for her.
In 1811, Isabelle and her husband acquired a property called the "Ferme de Rochefort" in Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil.[13] On 19 July 1828, her husband died in the same village on their 36th wedding anniversary.[14] On 18 November 1855, Isabelle died in Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil.[15]
Artworks
[edit]Works by Isabelle Pinson
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Self-Portrait at an Easel and With a Young Girl, 1804 -
The Fly Catcher, 1808 -
Portrait of Pierre Sue, 1809 -
Portrait of Philippe Petit-Radel, before 1815 -
Meeting of St Germanus of Auxerre with Genevieve of Paris, 1821 -
Presumed portrait of the artist's mother, Marie Bourdereau, widow Proteau, undated
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Notes
[edit]References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ Boulinier 1997, p. 355.
- ^ Simons, Patricia (Spring 2019). "Isabelle Pinson's Fly Catcher (1808): Genre, Anecdote, and Pictorial Theory". Journal18. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
- ^ Bulletin des lois de la République Française [Bulletin of the laws of the French Republic] (in French). Vol. 2–6. French Republic. 1834. p. 436.
- ^ a b c d e Boulinier 1997, p. 352.
- ^ a b c Boulinier 2004, p. 250.
- ^ Boulinier 2004, p. 249.
- ^ Boulinier 2004, p. 249–250.
- ^ Menoux 2021, p. 54.
- ^ Guffey 2001, p. 254.
- ^ a b Boulinier 2004, p. 250–251.
- ^ a b c d Boulinier 2004, p. 252.
- ^ Bellier de la Chavignerie & Auvray 1885, p. 281.
- ^ a b c Boulinier 2004, p. 253.
- ^ a b Boulinier 2004, p. 254.
- ^ "Death certificate of Isabelle Pinson". Archived from the original on 24 May 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
Works cited
[edit]- Boulinier, Georges (1 October 1997). Une artiste à l'Ecole de Médecine de Paris: Isabelle Pinson (1769-1855) [An artist at the Medical School of Paris: Isabelle Pinson (1769-1855)] (PDF) (in French). Vol. 31. Histoire des sciences médicales. pp. 351–357.
- Boulinier, Georges (2004). "Notes biographiques sur le peintre Isabelle Pinson (1769-1855)" [Biographical notes on the painter Isabelle Pinson (1769-1855)]. Dix-huitieme siècle (in French). 36: 249–254. doi:10.3406/dhs.2004.2609.
- Menoux, Paul (March 2021). "Femmes peintres sous la Révolution: Isabelle Pinson" [Women Painters during the Revolution: Isabelle Pinson]. Dossier de l'art (in French) 286: 54. ISSN 1161-3122.
- Guffey, Elizabeth E. (2001). Drawing an Elusive Line: The Art of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon. University of Delaware Press. p. 254. ISBN 9780874137347.
- Bellier de la Chavignerie, Émile; Auvray, Louis (1885). Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'École française [General Dictionary of Artists of the French School] (in French). Vol. 2. Librairie Renouard. p. 281.
External links
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Media related to Isabelle Pinson at Wikimedia Commons
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