Nélie Jacquemart

Nélie bar Hyacinthe Jacquemart ( born July 25, 1841 in Paris, † May 14, 1912 in Paris) was a French painter.

Nélie Jacquemart, a student of Leon Cogniet, painted in 1867 for the parish church of St- Jacques- du-Haut -Pas a Saint Eugène and introduced in 1868 its first portrait from which a number of portraits of famous personalities followed that by fine characteristics and simple attitude are excellent.

Among those portrayed are the Minister of Education Victor Duruy (1869 ), Marshal François Certain de Canrobert (1870 ), Adolphe Thiers ( 1871), Minister of Justice Jules Dufaure (1873 ), Count Charles Cousin -Montauban, Marquis of Montesquieu and Duke of Decazes (1878 ) emphasized. 1872 she met at a portrait session Édouard André, whom she eventually married in 1881. After promising beginnings, they later dedicated to the art collection and managed by her husband's death in 1894 the inheritance.

In 1912, she bequeathed both the Musée Jacquemart -André and monastery Chaalis the Institut de France.