Isabelle Pinson

Training under François-André Vincent, Jean-Baptiste Regnault and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait and genre. Places of work recorded in the authority are France. Works named in the authority record are The Fly Catcher. Work by Isabelle Pinson is recorded in the collections of Raclin Murphy Museum of Art and Museum of the History of Medicine.

• Name — Isabelle Pinson • Birth Name — Isabelle Proteau • Born — 26 June 1769 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 18 November 1855 • Place of death — Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil, France • Other Names — Madame Pinson • Field — Painting • Mother — Marie Bourdereau

Isabelle was born on 26 June 1769 in Paris, France and was baptized at the Church of Saint-Sulpice. She was named in honor of her godmother and her mother's employer, Isabelle de Jaucourt (1703–1783). Before her birth, her parents, Fabien Proteau and his wife, Marie Bourdereau, married in 1768. Marie was a native of Brinon-sur-Beuvron. Eleven years prior to her birth, in 1758, Marie, along with her six siblings, were taken in by Isabelle de Jaucourt to live in her private mansion on Rue de la Chaise, where she took the role of chambermaid. Fabien was a Burgundian from Genlis, Côte-d'Or; he served as a valet to the Viscount of Jaucourt until his passing on 17 April 1771.

After the death of her father, Isabelle was taken under the care of her godmother. Having shown an aptitude for drawing at an early age, she received lessons from renowned painters Jean-Baptiste Regnault, François-André Vincent, and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. It's possible Isabelle met Jean-Antoine Houdon from her early childhood with the Jaucourt family.

On 19 July 1792, Isabelle discreetly married André-Pierre Pinson in a property he had purchased from Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans in the Clichy-en-Launois (now Clichy-sous-Bois). She was 23 and he was 32 years her senior.

As a painter, Isabelle significantly distinguished herself as a portraitist. In particular, she produced portraits of medical personalities. She participated in the Salon for the first time in 1796, presenting three portraits. At the Salon of 1801, Isabelle exhibited a painting of Jacques-René Tenon. Furthermore, a work by Isabelle Pinson is part of the collections of the Palace of Versailles. It depicts man of letters, Pierre-Noël Famin. It was offered at the museum in 1839 by Pierre-Jules Jollivet, a grandson of one of the sisters of Famin.

bgcolor In 1811, Isabelle and her husband acquired a property called the "Ferme de Rochefort" in Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil. On 19 July 1828, her husband died in the same village on their 36th wedding anniversary. On 18 November 1855, Isabelle died in Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil.

• Illustration — Self-Portrait at an Easel and With a Young Girl, 1804 • Illustration — The Fly Catcher, 1808 • Illustration — Portrait of Pierre Sue, 1809 • Illustration — Portrait of Philippe Petit-Radel, before 1815 • Illustration — Meeting of St Germanus of Auxerre with Genevieve of Paris, 1821 • Illustration — Presumed portrait of the artist's mother, Marie Bourdereau, widow Proteau, undated