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Caroline Espinet, née Jacquier (29 March 1844,
Caroline Espinet, née Jacquier (29 March 1844, Lyon
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...
- 3 November 1912, Nantes
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) 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 took drawing lessons from the painter and photographer, Ernest Corroller (1822-1893). She then took lessons from the Orientalist painter,Hippolyte Lazerges
Jean Raymond Hippolyte Lazerges (1817–1887) was a French Orientalist painter and songwriter.
Biography
Despite showing some artistic talent his father, who was a baker, refused to let him study drawing. From 1830, he and his family lived in Al ...
.
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
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in 1879.Marie-Madeleine Martinie, ''Deux sœurs peintres : Élodie La Villette, Caroline Espinet'', Hengoun Éditions, 2008.
She held her first exhibit at the Salon
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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 themes, most likely due to her husband's interests.
During the 1880s, both sisters lived in Saint-Pierre-Quiberon
Saint-Pierre-Quiberon (; ) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France. The commune occupies the northern part of the Quiberon peninsula, that it shares with the commune of Quiberon.
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Residents of Sai ...
, near where her husband was stationed.Marie-Paule Piriou, "Femmes artistes en Bretagne 1850-1950 ", in ''ArMen'', n°195, July–August 2013. They exhibited together at a salon sponsored by the Union of Women Painters and Sculptors
The Union of Women Painters and Sculptors (, or UFPS) was founded in 1881 in Paris as a society for the promotion of female artists. The Union was founded by sculptor and educator Hélène Bertaux (Mme. Leon Bertaux) and had as many as 450 members ...
in 1882.
In 1900, she took in the two daughters of her niece, the pianist Rita Strohl
Rita Strohl (born Aimée Marie Marguerite Mercédès Larousse La Villette) (8 July 1865 – 27 March 1941) was a French composer and pianist.
Musical career
Born in Lorient (Morbihan), Rita Strohl was a gifted student and entered the Paris Conser ...
, following the death of Rita's husband Émile, an army lieutenant. Her husband Charles would live until 1926.
Many of her paintings may be seen at the . In 1943, her family home was hit by a bombardment and a large number of her works were destroyed.
References
Further reading
* Denise Delouche, ''Élodie La Villette et Caroline Espinet, sœurs peintres'', Quimper, Éditions Palantines, 2014.External links
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