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Marie-Guillemine Benoist, born Marie-Guillemine de Laville-Leroux (December 18, 1768 – October 8, 1826), was a French neoclassical, historical, and genre painter.

Marie-Guillemine Benoist
Self-portrait painting David's Belisarius, 1786 (Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe)
Born(1768-12-18)December 18, 1768
Paris, France
DiedOctober 8, 1826(1826-10-08) (aged 57)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Known forPainting
MovementNeoclassicism
Spouse
Pierre-Vincent Benoist
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(m. 1793)​
Marie-Guillemine BenoistPortrait d'une négresse, now known as Portrait of Madeleine1800, Musée du Louvre.
Marie-Guillemine Benoist
Portrait d'une négresse, now known as Portrait of Madeleine
1800, Musée du Louvre.

Biography


Benoist was born in Paris,[1] the daughter of a civil servant. Her training as an artist began in 1781 under Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and she entered Jacques-Louis David's atelier in 1786 along with her sister Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux.

The poet Charles-Albert Demoustier, who met her in 1784, was inspired by her in creating the character Émilie in his work Lettres à Émilie sur la mythologie (1801).

In 1791, Benoist exhibited for the first time at the Paris Salon, displaying her mythology-inspired picture Psyché faisant ses adieux à sa famille. Another of her paintings of this period, L'Innocence entre la vertu et le vice, is similarly mythological and reveals her feminist interests—in this picture, vice is represented by a man, although it was traditionally represented by a woman. In 1793, she married the lawyer Pierre-Vincent Benoist.

Her work, reflecting the influence of Jacques-Louis David, tended increasingly toward history painting by 1795. In 1800, Benoist exhibited Portrait d'une négresse (as of 2019 renamed Portrait de Madeleine[2]) in the Salon. Six years previously, slavery had been abolished, and this image became a symbol for women's emancipation and black people's rights. James Smalls, a professor of Art History at the University of Maryland, declared that "the painting is an anomaly because it presents a black person as the sole aestheticized subject and object of a work of art."[3] The picture was acquired by Louis XVIII for France in 1818.

An important commission for a full-length portrait of Napoléon Bonaparte—Premier Consul Français in this period—was awarded to her in 1803. This portrait was to be sent to the city of Ghent, newly ceded to France by the Treaty of Lunéville in 1801. Other honors came to her; she was awarded a Gold Medal in the Salon of 1804, and received a governmental allowance. During this time she opened an atelier for the artistic training of women.

Her career was harmed by political developments, however, when her husband, the supporter of royalist causes, Comte Benoist, was nominated in the Conseil d'État during the post-1814 Bourbon Restoration. Despite being at the height of her popularity, "she was obliged to abandon painting"[4] and pursuing women's causes, due in part to her devoir de réserve ("tactful withdrawal") in the face of the growing wave of conservatism in European society.


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References


  1. Phaidon Editors (2019). Great women artists. Phaidon Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0714878775. {{cite book}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  2. Matthew Robinson (26 March 2019). "French masterpieces renamed after black subjects". CNN. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  3. Constance Grady (19 June 2018). "The meaning behind the classical paintings in Beyonce and Jay-Z's 'Apeshit'". Vox. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  4. Chaudonneret, Marie-Claude (2003), "Benoist [née Leroulx-Delaville; (de) Laville-Lerou(l)x], Marie-Guillemine", Oxford Art Online, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t007939
  5. France-Presse, Agence (2019-03-26). "French masterpieces renamed after black subjects in new exhibition". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 26 March 2019.

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На других языках

[de] Marie-Guillemine Benoist

Marie-Guillemine Benoist, geboren als Marie-Guillemine de Laville-Leroux (* 18. Dezember 1768 in Paris; † 8. Oktober 1826 ebenda) war eine französische Malerin des Klassizismus.
- [en] Marie-Guillemine Benoist

[es] Marie-Guillemine Benoist

Marie-Guillemine Benoist, registrada como Marie-Guillemine de Laville-Leroux (París, 18 de diciembre de 1768 – Ib., 8 de octubre de 1826), pintora francesa de estilo neoclásico, cultivó la pintura histórica y de género.

[fr] Marie-Guillemine Benoist

Marie-Guillemine Benoist, née Marie-Guillemine de Laville-Leroux le 18 décembre 1768 à Paris où elle est morte le 8 octobre 1826, est une artiste peintre néoclassique française.

[it] Marie-Guillemine Benoist

Marie-Guillemine Benoist (Parigi, 18 dicembre 1768 – Parigi, 8 ottobre 1826) è stata una pittrice francese.

[ru] Бенуа, Мари-Гийемин

Мари́-Гийеми́н Бенуа́ (фр. Marie-Guillemine Benoist; 1768—1826) — французская художница (неоклассическая, историческая и жанровая живопись).


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