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Élodie La Villette, born Elodie Jacquier (April 12, 1848 Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) – 1917 Saint-Pierre-Quiberon), was a French painter. She is said to be one of the few women to have an artistic career when many routes were denied to her.[1]

Élodie La Villette
Born	Elodie Jacquier (1848-04-12)12 April 1848 Strasbourg
Died	1917 Saint-Pierre-Quiberon
Nationality	French
Known for	painting

Life

Elodie/Ella was born in 1848 to an army doctor and his wife. They moved frequently and her younger sister, Caroline, was born four years later.[1]

During the 1860s, the two sisters, Ella and Caroline Jacquier, took drawing classes with the painter Ernest Coroller in the Lycée Dupuy-de-Lôme. This influenced both their careers, since they both became painters, known under the respective names of Elodie La Villette and Caroline Espinet (1844-1912).[2] Her sister was to study with Hippolyte Lazerges. Ella married in 1860 and her sister in 1868 and they painted together. This was not a mere hobby as they did exhibit. She had a painting accepted by the Salon in 1870 and she was awarded a third class medal in 1875. The following year her painting "La grève de Lohic et de l'île de la Souris près de Lorient" was bought by Musée d'Orsay. Her painting won a bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1889.[1]

La Villette exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[3]

Élodie La Villette, who received the advice of Jean-Baptiste Corot in 1874, carries off "marine art" sensitive to light effects which are reminiscent of both Courbet's realism and the virtuosity of Boudin".[4]

Exhibitions

• In 1991, she was the artist of honor of the fair organized by the Lorient Society of Fine Arts, and had a retrospective tribute in 2007.
• In 2014, the Museum of Fine Arts Morlaix devoted its summer exhibition to the two painters sisters, Elodie La Villette and Caroline Espinet.[1][5]

Works

• Marine, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg
• La falaise d'Hyport, Musée des beaux-arts de Lille
• Marine, temps gris, Musée du Vieux-Château (Laval)
• Marée montante à Larmor, dessin, Département des Arts graphiques du Louvre
• Vue du quai Fleurquin à Douai, Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai
• Chemin de Bas-fort-Blanc, Musée de Morlaix
• La grève de Lohic et de l'île de la Souris près de Lorient, Musée d'Orsay[6]
• Bateau échoué sur une plage de Larmor (1877)
• Village de Larmor (1878)
• Larmor-Plage (1879)
• Ramassage du goémon sur le rivage
• Marée basse, Dieppe (1885)
• Marée basse à Portivy[7]

Bibliography

• François Lotz, « Louise Madeleine Élodie La Villette », in Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne, vol. 23, p. 2257
• Marie-Madeleine Martinie (2008), Elodie La Villette, Caroline Espinet: deux soeurs peintres, Hengoun, ISBN 978-2-916976-02-0

References

Sources

• Clara Erskine Clement Waters, Women in the Fine Arts, 1904, p. 206
• Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays, vol. 8, pp. 13 440, ISBN 978-2-70003010-5, Bénézit
• "accueil general". SiteSLBA.

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Élodie La Villette, née Élodie Jacquier à Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) le 12 avril 1842[1] et morte à Saint-Pierre-Quiberon en 1917, est une artiste peintre française.

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