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Jenny Zillhardt

Jenny Zillhardt studied at Académie Julian. Training under Tony Robert-Fleury is recorded. The recorded working language is French.

Also recorded as Marguerite Valentine · Jenny Zyllhardt · Marguerite Valentine Zillhardt · Jenny Marguerite Zillhardt

1905 print after page of Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day , by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London
Jenny Zillhardt · http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39000/39000-h/39000-h.htm · Public domain
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Biography

Work by Jenny Zillhardt is recorded in the collections of Musée d'Orsay. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour and Officer of the French Order of Academic Palms. Zillhardt died in 1939 at Neuilly-sur-Seine. Recorded as painter.

The following is established of origins and background.

Jenny Zillhardt died in 1939 at Neuilly-sur-Seine. Recorded at birth as Marguerite-Valentine-Jenny Zillhardt. It is also recorded that jenny Zillhardt was born in 1857 at Saint-Quentin.

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Jenny Zillhardt studied at Académie Julian. Training under Tony Robert-Fleury is recorded. The recorded working language is French.

Work by Jenny Zillhardt is recorded in the collections of Musée d'Orsay.

Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour and Officer of the French Order of Academic Palms.

Jeune fille au chat, probablement sa soeur, née en 1863.

Jeune fille au chat, probablement sa soeur, née en 1863.

Jenny Zillhardt · http://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/collections/catalogue-des-oeuvres/notice.html?no_cache=1 zsz=5 lnum= nnumid=78654

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Jenny Zillhardt · http://www.artnet.fr/artistes/jenny-zillhardt/nu-CnhohGjducAXl4sOcmATKw2

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  • Saint-Quentin

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  • Neuilly-sur-Seine

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This entry is compiled from 3 catalogued sources across 3 independent registers. The registers consulted are Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation and Crossref registry. Every statement above is held against the register that stated it; where the registers are silent, the entry is silent.

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