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Full Name
  
Elodie Jacquier

Known for
  
painting

Nationality
  
French

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Born
  
12 April 1848 (
1848-04-12
)
Strasbourg

Died
  
1917, Saint-Pierre-Quiberon, France

Élodie La Villette, born Elodie Jacquier (12 April 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 her.

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Life

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

During the 1860s, two sisters, Ella and Caroline Jacquier, in Lycée Dupuy-de-Lôme, studied drawing classes with the painter Ernest Coroller. This influenced both their careers, since they both became painters, known under the respective names Elodie La Villette and Caroline Espinet (1844-1912). Her sister was to study with Hippolyte Lazerges. Ella married in 1860 and her sister in 1868 and they would paint together. This was not a mere hobby as they would exhibit. She had a painting accepted by the Salon in 1870 and she was given 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 Musée d'Orsay. Her painting won a bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1889.

She was part of the delegation of French women artists presented at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, grouped in the Woman's Building.

"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". She is noted as being one of the few women to have an artistic career at a time when many routes were denied to her.

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 painters sisters, Elodie La Villette and Caroline Espinet.
  • Works

  • Marine, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg
  • La falaise d'Hyport, Musée des beaux-arts de Lille
  • Marine, temps gris, Musée du Vieux-Château (Laval)
  • Marée montante à Larmor, dessin, Département des Arts graphiques du Louvre
  • Vue du quai Fleurquin à Douai, Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai
  • Chemin de Bas-fort-Blanc, Musée de Morlaix
  • La grève de Lohic et de l'île de la Souris près de Lorient, Musée d'Orsay
  • Bateau échoué sur une plage de Larmor (1877)
  • Village de Larmor (1878)
  • Larmor-Plage (1879)
  • Ramassage du goémon sur le rivage
  • Marée basse, Dieppe (1885)
  • Marée basse à Portivy
  • References

    Élodie La Villette Wikipedia