Madeleine Carpentier (3 February 1865 – 13 September 1949) was a French painter. She was born in Paris and became a pupil of Adrien Bonnefoy and later studied under

Jules Lefebvre Jules Joseph Lefebvre (; 14 March 183624 February 1911) was a French Painting, painter, educator and theorist. Early life Lefebvre was born in Tournan-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, on 14 March 1836. He entered the École nationale supérieure des ...

at the

Académie Julian The () was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris, France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907). The school was active from 1868 through 1968. It remained famous for the number and qual ...

.Nos peintres et sculpteurs, graveurs, dessinateurs : portraits et biographies suivis d'une notice sur les Salons français depuis 1673, les Sociétés de Beaux-Arts, la Propriété artistique, etc. (1897)
(p. 92) She showed works at the

Paris Salon The Salon (), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art event in the Western world. At the ...

from 1885 and her work ''Les Chandelles'' was purchased by the city of Paris in 1896. A portrait she painted of her sister is in the collection of

Musée des Beaux-arts de Nantes The Fine Arts Museum of Nantes (French: Musée d'Arts de Nantes), along with 14 other provincial museums, was created, by consular decree on 14 Fructidor in year IX (31 August 1801). Today the museum is one of the largest museums in the region. ...

. Her painting ''Les Chandelles'' was included in the 1905 book ''

Women Painters of the World ''Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413–1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day'', assembled and edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow, is a book that lists an overview of prominent women painters up to 1905, the year 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, 1905 Her daughter

Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier (8 September 1886 – 7 November 1965) was a French painter and sculptor. She was born and died in Paris. She had an artistic independence. She studied in the École des Beaux Arts (1903–1909) and met Auguste ...

, a sculptor, made a sculpture of her for the family grave in Père-Lachaise cemetery. (Gaillac) La poupée malade - Madeleine Carpentier - musée des Beaux-Arts de Gaillac.jpg, ''La poupée malade'', ca.1925 Madeleine Carpentier - Les Chandelles - 1896.jpg, ''Les Chandelles'', 1896 Madeleine Carpentier - portrait (femme, Carpentier Marie-Paule, en pied).jpg, ''Portrait Marie-Paule Carpentier'' Madeleine Carpentier - portrait.jpg, ''Portrait''

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1865 births 1949 deaths 19th-century French painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French women painters 19th-century French women painters {{France-painter-19thC-stub