Caroline Espinet
Caroline Espinet, née Jacquier (29 March 1844, Lyon - 3 November 1912, Nantes) was a French painter. Biography She was born to Pierre Victor Jacquier (1799-1881), an army doctor, and his wife Marie-Louise, née Le Nézet. During the 1860s, she and her sister Élodie La Villette, Élodie took drawing lessons from the painter and photographer, Ernest Corroller (1822-1893). She then took lessons from the Orientalism, Orientalist painter, Hippolyte Lazerges. In 1868, she married Paul Durand, who died the following year. She remarried in 1873, to Charles Espinet, a naval lieutenant, who became the captain of a frigate in 1879.Marie-Madeleine Martinie, ''Deux sœurs peintres : Élodie La Villette, Caroline Espinet'', Hengoun Éditions, 2008. She held her first exhibit at the Salon (Paris), Salon in 1875; having showings there and at various other venues until 1899. Overall, however, she pursued her career in a fairly discreet manner. The majority of her paintings have maritime the ...
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