Discover painter, pastelist, draftsperson Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist

Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist

female / French

painter, pastelist, draftsperson, muse (person)

Name variations

This field records and makes accessible name variations, as found in sources. Alternate spellings, nicknames, maiden names - with or without the married name - are included in this category.

: Benoit, Marie-Guilhelmine
Benoits, Marie-Guilhelmine
Laville-Leroux, Marie-Guilhelmine de

Qualifications: painter, pastelist, draftsperson, muse (person)
Benoist was bevriend met en de muze van de dichter Charles-Albert Demoustier. Zij was zijn romanfiguur Émilie Demoustier. Aan haar droeg Demoustier zijn brieven 'Lettres à Émilie [Demoustier] sur la mythologie' op, die hij tussen 1786 en 1798 publiceerde (Saur 1994).

Nationality/school: French

Born: Paris 1768-12-18

Deceased: Paris 1826-10-07

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: trouwde op 12 maart 1793 met de royalist Pierre Vincent Benoist (1758-1834)

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3 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1781 - 1826

Active in

Parijs

born in

active in

died in

Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: David, Jacques-Louis
Vigée-Le Brun, Elisabeth

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: genre, history (genre), portrait

Member of

Salon de Paris (Parijs)
debuteerde in 1791 bij de Salon in Parijs

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 3 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 3, p. 338
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 24
Bénézit 1999 , vol. 2, p. 111
Saur 1992- , vol. 9 (1994), p. 131-132 (as: Benoist, Marie-Guilhelmine; Benoits, Marie-Guilhelmine; Laville-Leroux, Marie-Guilhelmine de)

Documentation RKD

This field specifies the location of the various RKD documentation materials. Most of the locations refer to our art-historical image documentation. In addition, you will find references to press documentation (clippings and short articles) here.

BUI/Fr.2/S op: Benoist div. voorletters

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Creation date: 1991-11-21; Last modified date: 2017-03-30

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