Painting ID:: 74110
Pouqueville Français : Portrait de François Pouqueville par Henriette Lorimier ; Huile sur toile 91 par 74 cm. MusXe national du Château et des Trianons (Versailles).
Date 1830
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Henriette Lorimier (7 August 1775, Paris - 1 April 1854) was a popular portraitist in Paris at the beginning of Romanticism.
She lived with the French diplomat and philhellene writer Francois Pouqueville (1770-1838).
student of the history painter Jean-Baptiste Regnault, she soon exhibited fine portraits and genre paintings at the Paris' Salons from 1800 to 1806 and from 1810 to 1814.
In 1805 Princess Caroline Murat-Bonaparte, a sister of the Emperor, purchased "La Chevre Nourriciere" a painting exhibited at the 1804 Salon and in 1806 Henriette Lorimier was awarded a First Class Medal for her painting of "Jeanne de Navarre" which was then purchased by the Empress Josephine de Beauharnais, consort of the Emperor Napoleon Ier. Pouqueville Français : Portrait de François Pouqueville par Henriette Lorimier ; Huile sur toile 91 par 74 cm. MusXe national du Château et des Trianons (Versailles).
Date 1830
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