Élodie La Villette, born Elodie Jacquier (12 April 1848 Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) – 1917 Saint-Pierre-Quiberon), was a French painter. She is said to be one of the few women to have an artistic career when many routes were denied to her.
Life
Elodie/Ella was born in 1848 to an army doctor and his wife. They moved frequently and her younger sister, Caroline, was born four years later.[1]
During the 1860s, two sisters, Ella and Caroline Jacquier, in Lycée Dupuy-de-Lôme, studied drawing classes with the painter Ernest Coroller. This influenced both their careers, since they both became painters, known under the respective names Elodie La Villette and Caroline Espinet (1844-1912).[2] Her sister was to study with Hippolyte Lazerges. Ella married in 1860 and her sister in 1868 and they would paint together. This was not a mere hobby as they would exhibit. She had a painting accepted by the Salon in 1870 and she was given a third class medal in 1875. The following year her painting "La grève de Lohic et de l'île de la Souris près de Lorient" was bought by Musée d'Orsay. Her painting won a bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1889.[1]
She was part of the delegation of French women artists presented at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, grouped in the Woman's Building.[3]
"Élodie La Villette, who received the advice of Jean-Baptiste Corot in 1874, carries off "marine art" sensitive to light effects which are reminiscent of both Courbet's realism and the virtuosity of Boudin".[4] She is noted as being one of the few women to have an artistic career at a time when many routes were denied to her.[1]
Exhibitions
In 1991, she was the artist of honor of the fair organized by the Lorient Society of Fine Arts, and had a retrospective tribute in 2007.
In 2014, the Museum of Fine Arts Morlaix devoted its summer exhibition to the two painters sisters, Elodie La Villette and Caroline Espinet.[1][5]
Works
Larmor-Plage (1879)
Marine, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg
La falaise d'Hyport, Musée des beaux-arts de Lille
Marine, temps gris, Musée du Vieux-Château (Laval)
Marée montante à Larmor, dessin, Département des Arts graphiques du Louvre
Vue du quai Fleurquin à Douai, Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai
Chemin de Bas-fort-Blanc, Musée de Morlaix
La grève de Lohic et de l'île de la Souris près de Lorient, Musée d'Orsay[6]
Bateau échoué sur une plage de Larmor (1877)
Village de Larmor (1878)
Larmor-Plage (1879)
Ramassage du goémon sur le rivage
Marée basse, Dieppe (1885)
Marée basse à Portivy[7]
Bibliography
François Lotz, « Louise Madeleine Élodie La Villette », in Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne, vol. 23, p. 2257
Marie-Madeleine Martinie (2008), Elodie La Villette, Caroline Espinet: deux soeurs peintres, Hengoun, ISBN 978-2-916976-02-0
References
Denise Delouche, Elodie La Villette & Caroline Espinet, sisters and painters, 2014, lespetitsmaitres, Retrieved August 2016
« Deux sœurs peintres : Élodie La Villette, Caroline Espinet » de M. Martinie, paru en octobre 2008, Collection : L'art du temps.
« French Women Painters: 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Exposition » by K.L. Nichols, on arcadiasystems.org, online.
Marie-Paule Piriou, Femmes artistes en Bretagne 1850-1950, revue ArMen, n°195, July–August 2013.
"Un été avec Elodie La Villette et Caroline Espinet". lecourrier-leprogres.fr (in French). 2014-08-22. Retrieved August 21, 2016.
"La grève de Lohic et l'île des Souris, près de Lorient. La mer étale". Retrieved 20 August 2016.
"seaweed". materialbrittany.blogspot.ca. July 24, 2013. Retrieved August 21, 2016.
Sources
Clara Erskine Clement Waters, Women in the Fine Arts, 1904, p. 206
Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays, 8, pp. 13 440, ISBN 978-2-70003010-5, Bénézit
"accueil general". SiteSLBA.
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