Louise Abbéma (1853-1927) - Le rameau de noisetier

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

Title: The Hazel Branch.
Ref: 1

Technique: Ink.
Period: 1900s.
Sheet size: 34.5 cm x 27.5 cm.
Not signed.

Crease trace at the top left

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

From the age of twenty-three she gained prominence thanks to a portrait of Sarah Bernhardt completed in 1875, then for portraits of the artist Jean-Jacques Henner, of the industrialist and diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps, and of the architect of the Opéra Charles Garnier—Sarah Bernhardt — who was her partner—sculpted a marble bust of Louise Abbéma in 1878.

She is among the official painters of the III Republic’s grand celebrations, demonstrating her great mastery in the execution of decorative panels in Paris, for the Opéra-Comique, the Hôtel de Ville 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 painting entitled Le Japon at the first Salon of the Société nationale des beaux-arts.

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