Octavie Rossignon
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.
Life change
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]
References change
- ↑ 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,...
- ↑ "Base Salons". salons.musee-orsay.fr. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
- ↑ Gazette musicale de Paris (in French). Gazette musicale de Paris. 1845.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Grand-Carteret, John (1888). Les moeurs et la caricature en France / par J. Grand-Carteret...
- ↑ "Journal amusant : journal illustré, journal d'images, journal comique, critique, satirique, etc". Gallica. 1857-05-23. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
- ↑ "Registres paroissiaux et d'état-civil". archives.yvelines.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-04-04.