Frédérique Vallet-Bisson
Frédérique Vallet-Bisson (29 April 1862 – 1949) was a French painter and pastellist. Vallet-Bisson was born in Amiens but moved to Paris, where she became a pupil of Jules-Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian. She showed works at the Paris Salon from 1890 to 1945, and won several awards.
Also recorded as Frederique Vallet-Bisson · Frédérique Vallet · Frédérique Augustine Louise Heyne
Frédérique Vallet-Bisson

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- Name
- Frédérique Vallet-Bisson
- Born
- 29 April 1862
- Birthplace
- Amiens
- Died
- 1949
- Full name
- Frédérique Augustine Louise Heyne.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- painter.
- Fields
- portrait.
- Education
- Académie Julian.
- Teachers
- Jules Lefebvre.
- Known for
- Portrait of Louise Elizabeth Laure de Bonneval and comtesse de Brecey.
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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Frédérique Vallet-Bisson (29 April 1862 – 1949) was a French painter and pastellist. Vallet-Bisson was born in Amiens but moved to Paris, where she became a pupil of Jules-Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian. She showed works at the Paris Salon from 1890 to 1945, and won several awards.
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She exhibited at Chicago World Exposition in 1893. Vallet-Bisson's painting The Departure was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World and was described in an issue of the Magasin Pittoresque. • Illustration — The Departure
Frédérique Vallet-Bisson studied at Académie Julian. Training under Jules Lefebvre is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Works named in the authority record are Portrait of Louise Elizabeth Laure de Bonneval, comtesse de Brecey. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.

Painting "Portrait of Louise Elizabeth Laure de Bonneval, countess of Brecey"
Frédérique Vallet-Bisson · Artnet

Frédérique Vallet, portrait of Lucienne, 1893.
Frédérique Vallet
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• Name — Frédérique Vallet-Bisson • Born — 29 April 1862 • Birthplace — Amiens • Died — 1949
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Asnières-sur-Seine.
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Orgeval.
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- 1.Archives départementales des Hauts-de-Seine, registre de naissance d'Asnières, 1862.
- 2.Proantic : Lucienne Bisson (1880-1942) Huile Sur Toile Signée. www.proantic.com.
- 3.Archives de Paris, acte de mariage du 05/08/1899 au arr., vue 18/31.
- 4.L'acte de naissance du 8 juillet 1881 de la mairie du arr. de Paris donne pour parents de Lucienne Ernest Lucien Bisson et Jeanne John, sa femme. Édouard L. F. Bisson, son oncle, est témoin. Archives d'état civil de la Ville de Paris, arr., 1881, vue 13/31. L'acte porte cependant la mention inhabituelle "née a priori le juillet au domicile de ses père et mère", cf. débat sur la paternité de Lucienne ci-dessus.
- 5.« Frédérique Vallet-Bisson » dans la base du RKD.
- 6.« Frédérique Vallet-Bisson 1865-1949. Peintre française » sur le site de l'Académie Julian.
- 7.Archives nationales, dossier de Légion d'honneur (consultable en ligne).
- 8.Dietel, Vera. “Vallet-Bisson, Frédérique”. Artists of the World. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2023.
- 9.Le Petit journal 12 février 1910 sur Gallica.
- 10.1893 Chicago World's Fair and Exposition.
- 11.Éric Ledru, Une expérience collective de femmes artistes-peintres à l’orée du : les « XII » à la Bodinière sur ateliermathildedelattre, mars 2025.
- 12.L'Aurore du 12 avril 1900.
- 13.Pastel de 1908 par Frédérique Vallet-Bisson. Mes Découvertes - Julien Cohen.
- 14.Walter Shaw Sparrow, Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, Londres, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 1905.
- 15.Frédérique Vallet-Bisson au travail - École du XXème siècle. www.lesatamanes.com.
- 16.Dictionnaire Bénézit (extrait consultable en ligne).
- 17.Journal des Femmes Artistes de novembre 1900 sur Gallica.
- 18.Journal officiel, 17 janvier 1914 (consultable en ligne).
- 19.La Chronique des Arts et de la curiosité, 4 juin 1904 (consultable en ligne).
- 20.Hoffmann-Eugène, Le livre des peintres exposants 1929, dixième édition, Paris, Bureaux du livre des peintres exposants, 1927.
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- Hoffmann-Eugène, Le livre des peintres exposants 1929, dixième édition, Paris, Bureaux du livre des peintres exposants, 1927.
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