Octavie Rossignon

French painter and illustrator

Octavie Rossignon (28 September 1807 Paris - 26 September 1871 Versailles ) was a French painter, illustrator and caricaturist .

She was one of the very first women to draw caricatures in France.

Octavie Rossignon apprenticed with her father and the painter Horace Vernet.[1] She exhibited at the 1831 Paris Salon, then regularly presented works there, mainly watercolors and pastels , until 1864.[2] Her studio was located at 15, rue Buffault from 1831 until the mid-1840s, then at 44, rue des Martyrs until 1864  .[3]

Octavie Rossignon also practiced drawing from life. In 1856. she began publishing humorous drawings in the Petit Journal pour Rire and the Journal Amusement, edited by the cartoonist Charles Philipon.  [4][5]

Around 1867, she moved to Versailles, at 13 rue de l'Impératrice. She died at her sister's house, 23 rue Maurepas  .[6]

John Grand-Carteret mentioned her in his book Les Mœurs et la Caricature en France , published in 1888.[4]

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  1. Bellier de La Chavignerie, Émile (1882–1885). Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'École française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours : architectes, peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs et lithographes. T2 et T3 (suppl.) / ouvrage commencé par Émile Bellier de La Chavignerie ; continué par Louis Auvray,...
  2. "Base Salons". salons.musee-orsay.fr. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
  3. Gazette musicale de Paris (in French). Gazette musicale de Paris. 1845.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Grand-Carteret, John (1888). Les moeurs et la caricature en France / par J. Grand-Carteret...
  5. "Journal amusant : journal illustré, journal d'images, journal comique, critique, satirique, etc". Gallica. 1857-05-23. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
  6. "Registres paroissiaux et d'état-civil". archives.yvelines.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-04-04.