22 Facts About Marie Bracquemond

Marie Bracquemond was one of four notable women in the Impressionist movement, along with Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, and Eva Gonzales.

Marie Bracquemond married noted printmaker Felix Bracquemond, who helped popularize Japanese art in France.

Marie Bracquemond participated in three out of the eight major Impressionist exhibitions, submitting her work to the fourth, fifth, and eighth group showings.

Marie Bracquemond was born Marie Anne Caroline Quivoron on 1 December 1840 in Argenton-en-Landunvez, near Brest, Brittany.

Marie Bracquemond was the child of an unhappy arranged marriage.

Marie Bracquemond had one sister, Louise, born in 1849 while her family lived near Ussel in the ancient abbey Notre-Dame de Bonnaigue.

Marie Bracquemond progressed to such an extent that in 1857 she submitted a painting of her mother, sister and old teacher posed in the studio to the Salon which was accepted.

Marie Bracquemond was then introduced to the painter Ingres who advised her and introduced her to two of his students, Flandrin and Signol.

Marie Bracquemond would assign to them only the painting of flowers, of fruits, of still lives, portraits and genre scenes.

Marie Bracquemond later left Ingres' studio and began receiving commissions for her work, including one from the court of Empress Eugenie for a painting of Cervantes in prison.

Felix and Marie Bracquemond worked together at the Haviland studio at Auteuil where her husband had become artistic director.

Marie Bracquemond designed plates for dinner services and executed large tile panels depicting Les Muses des arts, which were shown at the Universal Exhibition of 1878.

Marie Bracquemond began having paintings accepted for the Salon on a regular basis from 1864.

Marie Bracquemond nevertheless produced nine etchings that were shown at the second exhibition of the Society of Painter-Etchers at the Galeries Durand-Ruel in 1890.

Marie Bracquemond's husband introduced her to new media and to the artists he admired, as well as older masters such as Chardin.

Marie Bracquemond was especially attracted to the Belgian painter Alfred Stevens.

Between 1887 and 1890, under the influence of the Impressionists, Marie Bracquemond's style began to change.

Marie Bracquemond moved out of doors, and to her husband's disgust, Monet and Degas became her mentors.

In 1886, Felix Marie Bracquemond met Gauguin through Sisley and brought the impoverished artist home.

Unlike many of her Impressionist contemporaries, Marie Bracquemond spent a great deal of effort planning her pieces.

Marie Bracquemond remained a staunch defender of Impressionism throughout her life, even when she was not actively painting.

Marie Bracquemond produced at least 81 paintings and oil sketches, 34 watercolors, 23 drawings, and nine etchings.