Laure Brouardelle (1852-1935) - Watercolor - Park And Garden Of Fontainebleau -

WATERCOLOR SIGNED "LAURE BROUARDEL" AND LOCATED "FONTAINEBLEAU 1920" - GOOD GENERAL CONDITION - CARNAVALET MUSEUM IN PARIS AND LISIEUX - VERY NUMEROUS EXHIBITIONS INCLUDING CHICAGO UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION IN 1893 - Laure Brouardel, born in Fontainebleau on March 30, 1852 and died in Paris on December 31, 1935, is a French painter and watercolourist. Biography[edit | modify the code] Childhood, education and private life[modifier | modify the code] Laure Lapierre is the daughter of Céline Huet (circa 1830-?) and Louis Émile Lapierre, landscape painter (1817-1886)1 with whom she developed a taste for painting2. It seems that she learned painting without a particular master2. She married around 1873 with the industrialist Georges Duchesne-Fournet (1840-1885)1 then with the hospital doctor Paul Brouardel around 18871,3. The latter died in 19061. The Château de La Monteillerie, near Lisieux, was her summer residence and she was a member of the Friends of the Arts Society of Lisieux2. Artistic career[edit | modify the code] Laure Brouardel begins by painting portraits2,4. She became known primarily as a watercolourist5. The first exhibition of her works dates from 18762. She is a member of the Union of Women Painters and Sculptors6, of the artistic society of Fontainebleau2 and of the Salon des Artistes Français5. His paintings were exhibited there between 1890 and 19015. His various trips to Syria, Jerusalem, Greece, Italy (including Venice) to Lisieux and Fontainebleau enabled him to paint many landscapes there in connection with the influence of the School of Barbizon that his father transmitted to him2. In 1893, the organizers of the Universal Exhibition in Chicago granted a pavilion dedicated to Women: this Woman's Building incorporated around a hundred visual artists from all over the world, including thirty French painters, partly forgotten, including Laure Brouardel7, Exhibitions[modifier | modify the code] Exhibition of watercolors by Laure Brouardel at the Georges Bernheim gallery, poster by Jules Grün, 1916 In June 1916, Laure Brouardel donated watercolors twice2 for the benefit of doctors and their families who were victims of the First World War9. In 2018, the Museum of Art and History of Lisieux presented Portrait of a Woman with Poppies or Anemones as part of its exhibition on the hierarchy of artistic genres10