Marie Danse or Marie Destrée-Danse (February 19, 1866 – May 31, 1942) was a Belgian painter-etcher and the wife of the art historian and politician

Jules Destrée Jules Destrée (; Marcinelle, 21 August 1863 – Brussels, 3 January 1936) was a Walloon lawyer, cultural critic and socialist politician. The trials subsequent to the strikes of 1886 determined his commitment within the Belgian Labour Party. ...

Life and work

Danse was born in

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as the daughter of the painter-etcher

Auguste Danse Auguste Michel Danse (13 July 1829, Brussels – 2 August 1929, Uccle) was a Belgian engraver and etcher. Biography His father, Mathieu-Joseph Danse, was a merchant. While still very young, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels ...

who was her first teacher. Her sister

Louise Danse Louise Danse (1867 – 1948) was a Belgian painter. Life and work She was the daughter of the engraver Auguste Danse who was her first teacher. Her sister Marie Danse was also a painter. Her mother was the sister of the painter Constantin Meuni ...

was also a painter-etcher who later became known for her etchings. Marie's etching ''Massacre of the Innocents after Matteo di Giovanni da Siena'', 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 She became a founding member of the Brussels graphic artist collective ''L’Estampe'' in 1906, along with her sister Louise. After her husband's death in 1936 she was instrumental in founding the ''Institut Jules Destrée'' in 1938 to promote the regional development of Wallonia. With their heritage, a museum was founded in the attic of the Town Hall of

Charleroi Charleroi (, , ; ) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It is the largest city in both Hainaut and Wallonia. The city is situated in the valley of the Sambre, in the south-west of Belgium, not ...

called ''Musée Jules Destrée'', which opened in 1988.

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* 1866 births 1942 deaths Artists from Brussels 19th-century Belgian painters 20th-century Belgian painters 20th-century Belgian women painters 19th-century Belgian women painters {{Belgium-painter-stub