1. Pauline Auzou was a French painter and art instructor, who exhibited at the Paris Salon and was commissioned to make paintings of Napoleon and his wife Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma.
12 Facts About Pauline Auzou
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Pauline Auzou assumed the surname La Chapelle when she was adopted by a cousin.
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Early in her studies and career, Pauline Auzou made paintings of legendary Greek figures.
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Pauline Auzou made studies of male and female nudes, something generally deemed inappropriate for women artists at the time.
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Pauline Auzou was a successful artist, first a Neoclassist, who made historic, genre and portrait paintings, including depictions of Napoleon.
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Pauline Auzou received 2,000 to 4,000 francs in stipend payments, for the creation of essentially government mandated paintings of contemporary events, including paintings made of and for Napoleon.
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Pauline Auzou made a painting of legendary Daphnis and Phyllis, which was exhibited at the 1795 salon.
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Pauline Auzou was awarded a first class medal at the Salon of 1806 for her painting of Pickard Elder, which in 1807 was represented in the painting Mr Pickard and his family.
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Pauline Auzou exhibited at the Paris Salon until 1817 and generally until 1820.
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Pauline Auzou opened an art school for young women, like other women artists, Lizinka de Mirbel and Marie Guilhelmine Benoist, and men.
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Pauline Auzou's painting Portrait of a musician is in the collection of the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, United States.
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Pauline Auzou's works were collected by the Society of Friends to the Arts, Duchess de Berri and the French government.