Louise Abbéma (1853-1927) - Paysage de foret

We present to you a set of original works on paper by the artist Louise Abbéma (1853-1927).

Title: Forest Landscape
Ref: 2

Medium: Ink.
Period: 1900s.
Sheet size: 34.5 cm x 27.5 cm.
Unsigned.

Paper slightly creased

Louise Abbéma trained with the history painter Louis Devédeux (1820-1874), then became a pupil of artists Charles Chaplin (1825-1891), Jean-Jacques Henner (1829-1905) and Carolus-Duran (1837-1917).

At the age of twenty-three, she rose to fame thanks to a portrait of Sarah Bernhardt completed in 1875, then by painting those of the artist Jean-Jacques Henner, the entrepreneur and diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps, and the opera architect Charles Garnier; Sarah Bernhardt — who is her partner — carved a marble bust of Louise Abbéma in 1878.

She is among the official painters of the III Republic’s revelries, demonstrating her great mastery in the execution of decorative panels in Paris, for: the Opéra-Comique, the City Hall, and the town halls of the 7th, 10th and 20th arrondissements.

In 1881, she received an honorable mention at the Salon des artistes français, where she regularly exhibited until 1926. In 1890, she exhibited a canvas titled Le Japon at the first Salon of the Société nationale des beaux-arts.

She was a member of the delegation of French women artists shown at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, gathered in the Woman’s Building, while also exhibiting at the Chicago Fine Arts Palace.