Zoé-Laure de Chatillon
Zoé-Laure de Chatillon, née Delaune (1826–1908) was a French painter. • Illustration — Sleeping Child Chatillon was born in Chambray but moved to Paris, where she showed works at the Paris Salon during the years 1851–1887, and exposed at Giroux in Paris in 1856. She was a student of Léon Cogniet, and married Jules François Henri de Châtillon, subprefect of Châteaudun, the 8 April 1850. She was possibly related to Auguste de Châtillon, a French painter who travelled to New Orleans, as several of her paintings have been identified as depicting people from New Orleans.
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Zoé-Laure de Chatillon
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- Name
- Zoé-Laure de Chatillon
- Born
- 1826
- Birthplace
- Chambray
- Died
- 1908
- Place of death
- Clarens, Switzerland
- Occupation
- Painter
- Nationality
- France
- Teachers
- Léon Cogniet
- Languages
- French
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Zoé-Laure de Chatillon, née Delaune (1826–1908) was a French painter. • Illustration — Sleeping Child Chatillon was born in Chambray but moved to Paris, where she showed works at the Paris Salon during the years 1851–1887, and exposed at Giroux in Paris in 1856. She was a student of Léon Cogniet, and married Jules François Henri de Châtillon, subprefect of Châteaudun, the 8 April 1850. She was possibly related to Auguste de Châtillon, a French painter who travelled to New Orleans, as several of her paintings have been identified as depicting people from New Orleans.
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Her painting Sleeping Child, shown at the Salon of 1878, was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World. Chatillon died in Clarens, Vaud. She received a number of imperial orders, among them are the Jeanne D'arc vouant ses armes à la vierge (1869), currently in the custody of the Musée Antoine Vivenel of Compiègne, and stored in the Église Saint-Jacques de Compiègne She was one of the first members of the Union of Women Painters and Sculptors founded in 1881 by Hélène Bertaux and frequently showed her works in their exhibition.
Training under Léon Cogniet is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Work by Zoé-Laure de Chatillon is recorded in the collections of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes and musée Saint-Germain.
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• Name — Zoé-Laure de Chatillon • Born — 1826 • Birthplace — Chambray • Died — 1908 • Place of death — Clarens, Switzerland • Occupation — Painter
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1826
Zoé-Laure de Chatillon was born on 24 February 1826.
1908
Zoé-Laure de Chatillon died on 1 August 1908.
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- 1.Zoé-Laure de Châtillon. femmespeintres.net.
- 2.Zoé-Laure de Chatillon in the RKD,
- 3.Heuschling, Xavier. La Noblesse artiste et lettrée, tableau historique. 139. 1863.
- 4.Zoé-Laure de Chatillon in Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord: peintres, Musée de Quebec, 1992
- 5.French Women Painters: 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Exhibition. Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893.
- 6.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, 1905
- 7.La Lanterne, supplément littéraire. 4. 29 December 1889.
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