Marie Bracquemond

Marie Bracquemond (born Quivoron - Pasquiou ) ( born December 1, 1840 in Argentan, † January 17, 1916 in Sèvres ) was a French painter and belonged to the circle of the great French Impressionists.

After a youth in difficult circumstances Quivoron Marie - Pasquiou moved to character studies from Etampes, near Paris. She made the acquaintance of Jean -Auguste -Dominique Ingres, who promoted and their style coined to give without their regular instruction. In 1857 she received permission to copy in the Louvre images. There she met the painter and graphic artist Félix Bracquemond know who was active in Limoges porcelain as a painter and printmaker. Both were married in August 1869. Marie was included by her husband in his work and created the designs for porcelain, ceramic and wall decorations. She painted landscapes and still life and gave drawing lessons at a school.

One of these designs, issued in 1874 at the Paris Salon, caught the attention of Degas, who introduced the artist with Renoir and Monet, whose paintings she admired. It was mainly Gauguin, who encouraged her in 1880 to abandon their conventional style and paint according to the new style. Multiple they now showed her work in the exhibitions of the Impressionists.

The couple had meanwhile moved to Sèvres. Félix Bracquemond had little understanding of the artistic direction of his wife, was probably jealous of her success. Worn down by his criticism, they limited their artistic activities to immediate environment in Sèvres, and gave them up altogether after 1890. So it did not come to the complete development of their talent, and the scope of their life's work remained limited. A retrospective exhibition in 1919 in the Galerie Bernheim- Jeune showed about 90 mostly sketchy paintings, 34 watercolors and nine stitches.