Adèle Riché

Adèle Riché
Born1791
Paris, France
Died1887 (https://gw.geneanet.org/gntstarricheadele?n=riche&oc=&p=adele)
Fontainebleau, France
NationalityFrench

Adèle Riché (1791–1887) was a French painter. Riché was born, and lived her life in France. She is the daughter of François-Joseph Riché (1765 - 1838), chief gardener of the Paris Jardin des Plantes. A pupil of Jan Frans van Dael and Gerard van Spaendonck.,[1] she is known for her still life paintings, including watercolors,[2] as well as her portraits.[1] She worked most of her life as a botanical painter for the french Natural History Museum in Paris. There, she painted numerous watercolor on vellum for the Museum's collection, as well as illustrating François André Michaux's 1813 Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amerique Septentrionale (History of septentrional american forest trees). Her techniques included botanical, entomological, and natural painting, oil, watercolor, and on vellum, and engraving, as well as hand-colouring.[3] She collaborated with Henri-Joseph, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, and Pancrace Bessa, also botanical artists. Apart from her scientific illustrative work, she is also a gold medalist in 1831's Salon. Riché died in Fontainebleau, France in 1878.

Work

Riché worked primarily in watercolor and her subject of choice was often women, flowers, or fruit.[4] Her portraits were often done in oil; the stylistic preference of the times. Whereas her fruit and still life pieces were done in watercolor.

She painted a portrait of Natalia Obrenovich, Queen of Serbia.[5]

  • Plate 30 from The North American Sylva showing Riché's painting of the Sabal palmetto, originally known as the cabbage tree (Chamærops palmetto).
    Plate 30 from The North American Sylva showing Riché's painting of the Sabal palmetto, originally known as the cabbage tree (Chamærops palmetto).
  • Portrait of Natalia Obrenovich, Queen of Serbia, 1875-1878
    Portrait of Natalia Obrenovich, Queen of Serbia, 1875-1878

References

  1. ^ a b Adèle Riché in the RKD
  2. ^ Bryan, Michael (1889). Graves, Robert Edmund; Armstrong, Walter (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical. Vol. II: L–Z. George Bell & Sons. p. 374. OCLC 2660507 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "Last Name: Riché | Given Name: Adèle". Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators 1450–1950. Archived from the original on 31 January 2024. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  4. ^ "Artists: Adèle Riché". Invaluable.com. Archived from the original on 5 January 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  5. ^ "Portrait of Natalia Obrenovich, Queen of Serbia - Adele Riche". Hermitage Museum. Archived from the original on 31 January 2024. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
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