Inès Esménard
Inès Esménard (1789–1859), sometimes known as Inès d’Esménard, was a 19th century French painter and portrait miniaturist.
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Inès Esménard
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- Name
- Inès Esménard
- Born
- 1789
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Died
- 1859
- Known for
- portrait miniatures
- Training
- Jean-François Colson, Jean-Pierre Franque, Jean-François Hollier
- Movement
- Neoclassicism
- Nationality
- France.
- Teachers
- Jean-François Gilles Colson, Jean-Pierre Franque and Jean-François Hollier.
- Languages
- French.
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• Name — Inès Esménard • Birth Name — Inès Esménard • Born — 1789 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 1859 • Place of death — Paris, France • Known for — portrait miniatures • Training — Jean-François Colson, Jean-Pierre Franque, Jean-François Hollier • Movement — Neoclassicism • Mother — Jeanne Adolphine Kalegraber • Father — Joseph-Alphonse Esménard
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Inès Esménard is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The birth of Inès Esménard is recorded in Paris, France.
Biography
Biography
Inès Esménard was born in Paris, one of three daughters of the poet Joseph-Alphonse Esménard and Jeanne Adolphine de Kalkräber. Her father, a royalist, spent a good deal of her early childhood in exile due to the French Revolution but returned to France when Napoleon rose to power. Her sisters were Nathalie, who became a botanical artist, and Atala, and her uncle was the journalist Jean-Baptiste Esménard. In addition to being painter, she was a musician and spoke several languages besides French, including English and Spanish. • Illustration — Inès Esménard, Portrait of Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, 1837, oil on canvas. Esménard studied painting with Jean-François Colson and Jean-Pierre Franque and miniature painting with Jean-François Hollier. She showed actively in the Paris Salons from 1814 to 1851, exhibiting many portraits with anonymized titles (e.g. Portrait of Mme. L, 1834), but she also painted a number of notable figures of her time. In the Salon of 1819, where she was awarded a second prize medal, she showed miniatures of two well-known French actors: Mademoiselle Mars and Joséphine Duchesnois in the role of Electra, the latter painted for the art collector Count Nikolai Nikitich Demidov. She also showed portraits of Pierre-Joseph Redouté, her sister's teacher, and of both Napoleon Bonaparte and his brother Joseph. She produced various works inspired by Daniel Auber's opera Leicester, or the Chateau of Kénilworth, which premiered in Paris in 1823. Critics tended to speak of her work with moderate praise, referring to it as graceful, pretty, solidly painted, and well colored. • Illustration — Portrait of Count Claude François Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Sesmaisons, 1817. There are several portraits of Esménard in existence. One was painted by Jean-François Hollier when she was his student, and another by François-Joseph Navez, who painted all three Esménard sisters in 1815. There are two lithographs by Dominique Vivant Denon, one a group portrait (The Delights of the Country) that includes Esménard along with the novelist Sydney, Lady Morgan and the other a profile of Esménard seated and reading, with an easel and canvas behind her. There is also an Esménard self-portrait of 1839.
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the headings Ines d'Esmenard, Ines D' Esmenard and Ines Esmenard. Her recorded language was French. She was the child of Joseph-Alphonse Esménard.
Three sitting women in a landscape. According to Henri Beraldi, Les Graveurs du dix-neuvième siècle: guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes, vol. V (Paris, Conquet, 1866), p. 185 available online on Gallica, the lithograph Les Délices de la Campagne depicts " Melle Esmenard, lady Morgan et une troisième femme " (i.e. Inès Esménard, Category:Lady Morgan and a third woman.
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Three sitting women in a landscape. According to Henri Beraldi, Les Graveurs du dix-neuvième siècle: guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes, vol. V (Paris, Conquet, 1866), p. 185 available online on Gallica, the lithograph Les Délices de la Campagne depicts " Melle Esmenard, lady Morgan et une troisième femme " (i.e. Inès Esménard, Category:Lady Morgan and a third woman.
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1789
Inès Esménard was born in 1789 at Paris.
1859
Inès Esménard died in 1859.
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- 1.Esménard, rentiers de Lambesc, avec jouissance des droits du seigneur pour les princes de Lorraine, seigneurs de Mondésir, de Vautubières de Chamvert Du Mazet, gouverneurs héréditaires de Lambesc. Impr. de Rousseau+Pallez. 1859.
- 2.Recensement de population, Auvers-sur-Oise, , Archives départementales du Val-d'Oise (vue 17/61) [76 ans, née à Paris ; note : elle est déclarée du sexe masculin et dite ]
- 3.Recensement de population, Auvers-sur-Oise, , Archives départementales du Val-d'Oise (vue 16/59) [80 ans, née à Paris]
- 4.Fiche du mariage , , Paris, fonds Andriveau, disponible sur Filae
- 5.— Lady Sidney Morgan (miss Owenson), La France, Paris, 1817.
- 6.Jean-François Hollier, peintre miniaturiste né à Chantilly en 1778 et mort en 1845, élève de Jacques-Louis David et de Jean-Baptiste Isabey. Il réalisa un portrait d’Inès Esmenard (cf. nécrologie de Jean-François Hollier in Journal des artistes, Paris, 1844, Année 19, Nouvelle collection, Tome 2, ).
- 7.Mercure de France, Paris, tome 2, 1817, .
- 8.Poème écrit en 1805 par son père, nourri par les observations faites par l'auteur au cours de ses voyages.
- 9.La Minerve française, Paris, novembre 1819, tome VIII, et Œuvres complètes d’Étienne de Jouy avec des éclaircissements et des notes, Paris, 1823, T.17, .
- 10., Le Renégat, t. , Paris, , 1823, préface de l’éditeur p. xj-xij.
- 11.Journal des artistes : annonce et compte rendu des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure, lithographie, poésie, musique et art dramatique, Année 7, Volume 1, Numéro 17, Paris, 28 avril 1833, .
- 12.Journal des artistes : annonce et compte rendu des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure, lithographie, poésie, musique et art dramatique, Année 9, , , Paris, 26 avril 1835, .
- 13.Journal des artistes : annonce et compte rendu des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure, lithographie, poésie, musique et art dramatique, Année 14, Volume 1, Numéro 15, Paris, 15 avril 1840, .
- 14.citation Parmi lesquels on distingue plusieurs Ecclésiastiques et Curés de paris, un grand nombre de Pairs de France et de Députés ; les noms de S. M. la Reine, et celui de M. le Ministre de l’Instruction Publique, sont en tête de la liste. M. L’Intendant Général de la Liste Civile vient de souscrire pour les Bibliothèques de la Couronne.
- 15.M. le comte de Montholon, Sentiment de Napoléon sur la divinité : pensées recueillies à Sainte-Hélène, publié par M. le Chevalier de Beauterne, Paris, 1841.
- 16.Acte de décès , , Auvers-sur-Oise, Archives départementales du Val-d'Oise
- 17.Table alphabétique des successions et des absences, , Esménard Inès,1876-1885, bureau de Pontoise, Archives départementales du Val-d'Oise (vue 74/200) ( )
- 18.Charles Gabet, Dictionnaire des artistes de l'école française, au : peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure, dessin, lithographie et composition musicale, 1831.
- 19.G. K. Nagler, Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon oder nachrichten von dem leben und den Werken der maler, Bildhauer, baumeister, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter…, Munich, 1837.
- 20.Émile Bellier de La Chavignerie, Louis Auvray, 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, , 1882-1885, .
- 21.Adolphe Siret, Dictionnaire historique et raisonné des peintres de toutes les écoles depuis l'origine de la peinture jusqu'à nos jours, , 1883, .
- 22.Fr. J. Navez : sa vie, ses oeuvres et sa correspondance. Bruylant-Christophe et Cie. 1870.
- 23.Inventaire du fonds français après 1800. Bibliothèque nationale. 6. 1953.
- 24.Inventaire du fonds français après 1800. Bibliothèque nationale. 6. 1953.
- 25.www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/joconde_fr.
- 26.www. abdn.ac.uk.
- 27.Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, gravure, lithographie et architecture des artistes vivants exposés au musée royal des arts, le , Paris, 1824.
- 28.Auguste Jal précise que , in Auguste Jal, Salon de 1831 : ébauches critiques, Paris, 1831, .
- 29.Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants exposés au musée royal, le , Paris, 1834.
- 30.Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants exposés au Palais National le , Paris, 1850.
- 31.Inventaire du fonds français après 1800. Bibliothèque nationale. 7. 1954.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
- Dictionnaire Bénézit, , Paris, Éditions Gründ, 2006, .
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