Hortense Richard

French painter

Désiré Alfred Magne

(m. 1879)

Hortense Richard (1860–1939 or 1940) was a French painter.^[1]

Biography

Richard was born on 24 June 1860 in Paris. She studied with Delphine Arnould de Cool-Fortin, Jules Joseph Lefebvre and William-Adolphe Bouguereau. She married fellow painter Désiré Alfred Magne [fr] in 1879.^[2]

She exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1875 to 1935.^[3] Richard exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.^[4]

She died in 1939 or 1940.^[1]^[3]^[2]

Gallery

Love's Awakening (painting on porcelain)
The sleeping woman (1893) (painting on ivory).
At the church in Poitou (1895), Musée du Louvre
Side portrait of a young blond lady, Musée du Louvre
The letter of Manon, Musée du Louvre
Portrait of a young brunette, Musée du Louvre

References

^ ^a ^b "Richard, Hortense (1860-1939?)". BnF Catalogue général (in French). Retrieved 12 November 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Richard, Hortense". Oxford Index. Oxford University Press. 31 October 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00152174. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Hortense Richard". Musée d'Orsay (in French). Retrieved 12 November 2018.
^ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 12 November 2018.