Hélène Marie Antigna

Hélène Marie Antigna (née Hélène-Marie Pettit; born at Melun), was a French painter. She was a pupil of her husband, Jean Pierre Antigna, and of Eugène Delacroix. Her best works are small genre subjects. She exhibited every year after 1861; Chercheuse de bois mort (1861) and Retour du contrebandier (1868) are mentioned. In 1877, she exhibited at the Paris Salon, On n'entre pas! and the New Cider; in 1876, an Interior at Saint Brieuc and A Stable; in 1875, Tant va la cruche à l'eau.