Constance Marie Charpentier

Constance Marie Charpentier
Self portrait
Born
Constance-Marie Blondelu

(1767-04-04)4 April 1767
Paris, France
Died3 August 1849(1849-08-03) (aged 82)
Paris, France
Known forPainting

Constance Marie Charpentier (born 4 April 1767 Paris, – 3 August 1849 Paris) was a French painter. She specialized in genre scenes and portraits, mainly of children and women. She was also known as Constance Marie Blondelu.

Life and career

Records of Charpentier's training are unclear, but she might have studied with numerous artists. It is generally accepted that she studied with the acclaimed French painter Jacques-Louis David, but she may also have been a pupil of François Gérard, Pierre Bouillon, Louis Lafitte and either Johann Georg Wille or his son, Pierre-Alexandre Wille.

Some of the works previously attributed to her teacher, Jacques-Louis David, are now believed to belong to Charpentier. The well-known painting Young Woman Drawing (1801) was incorrectly attributed first to David, before it was reattributed to Charpentier; however it is now believed to be the work of her contemporary Marie-Denise Villers.

Constance Marie Charpentier, Melancholy, 1801, oil on canvas, 130 x 165 cm. Musée de Picardie, Amiens, France

In 1788 she received a 'Prix d'Encouragement.' From 1795 to 1819 she exhibited approximately thirty paintings at various Salons, winning a gold medal in 1814 at the Paris Salon and a silver medal in 1821 at the Salon at Douai. Based on surviving, positively identified works by Charpentier, she is considered one of the finest portrait painters of her era.

References

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