Isabelle Pinson

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Isabelle Pinson
Self-Portrait (1823)
Born
Isabelle Proteau

(1769-06-26)26 June 1769
Paris, France
Died18 November 1855(1855-11-18) (aged 86)
Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil
Other namesMadame Pinson
Known forPainting
Spouse
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(m. 1792; died 1828)​
MotherMarie Bourdereau
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Isabelle Pinson (/ˈpɪnsən/, French: [pɛ̃sɔn] ⓘ; née Proteau; 26 June 1769 – 18 November 1855), commonly known as Madame Pinson, was a French genre painter and portraitist. She is best known for her artwork, "The Fly Catcher" prominently exhibited at the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art.[1]

Biography

Birth and background

Isabelle was born on 26 June 1769 in Paris, France[2] and baptized at Saint-Sulpice, Paris.[3] She was named after her godmother and mother's employer, Isabelle de Jaucourt.[3] Before her birth, her parents, Fabien Proteau and his wife, Marie Bourdereau married in 1768.[3][4]

Isabelle's mother, Marie was a native to Brinon-sur-Beuvron. Eleven years prior to her birth, In 1758, Marie became a chambermaid to Isabelle de Jaucourt, sister of Louis de Jaucourt.[3][5]

Fabien Proteau, father of Isabelle, was a Burgundian; he served as a valet to the Viscount of Jaucourt until his death on 17 April 1771.[6]

Education

After the death of her father, Isabelle was taken under the care of her godmother, Isabelle de Jaucourt.[4] She received lessons from Jean-Baptiste Regnault and François-André Vincent.[3][4][7] It's possible Isabelle met Jean-Antoine Houdon from her early childhood with the Jaucourt family.[8][note 1]

Marriage

Portrait of Mme Pinson by Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux (1790s)
Portrait of M. Pinson by Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux (1790s)

On 19 July 1792, Isabelle discreetly married André-Pierre Pinson [fr] in a property he had purchased from Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans in the Clichy-en-Launois (now Clichy-sous-Bois).[9] She was 23 and he was 32 years her senior.[9]

Career

As a painter, Isabelle significantly distinguished herself as a portraitist. In particular, she produced portraits of medical personalities.[9] At the Salon of 1801, Isabelle exhibited a painting of Jacques-René Tenon.[9]

Furthermore, a work by Isabelle Pinson is part of the collections of the Palace of Versailles. It depicts man of letters, Pierre-Noël Famin.[10] It was offered at the museum in 1839 by Pierre-Jules Jollivet, a grandson of one of the sisters of Famin.[10]

Later life and death

In 1811, Isabelle and her husband acquired a property called the "Ferme de Rochefort" in Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil.[10] On 19 July 1828, her husband died in the same village on their 36th wedding anniversary.[11] On 18 November 1855, Isabelle died in Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil.[12]

Her inscription engraved on her own tomb reads:[11]

Isabelle Proteau
Widow of A.P. Pinson
Anatomist
Perfectly loved
by a virtuous husband,
her constant thought was to make him happy.
Since then, she has honored his cherished memory.
Pray for her.

Artwork

Works by Isabelle Pinson

Misattributions

  • Portrait of a man in a grey jacket, 1779
    Portrait of a man in a grey jacket, 1779
  • Portrait of a woman in a blue dress, 1779
    Portrait of a woman in a blue dress, 1779
  • Portrait of a woman with crimped hair breastfeeding, in a blue dress, 1780
    Portrait of a woman with crimped hair breastfeeding, in a blue dress, 1780
  • Portrait d'homme en veste mauve à jabot de dentelles, coiffé d'une perruque, 1780
    Portrait d'homme en veste mauve à jabot de dentelles, coiffé d'une perruque, 1780
  • Family Group, 1781
    Family Group, 1781
  • Presumed portrait of Rosalie Dugazon, 1787
    Presumed portrait of Rosalie Dugazon, 1787
  • Music-making company in the park, 18th-century
    Music-making company in the park, 18th-century

Notes

  1. ^ In 1775, Houdon made busts of the Comtesse de Jaucourt, Elisabeth Sophie Gilly, and the latter's daughter, the young Comtesse du Cayla.[8]

References

Citations

  1. ^ Simons, Patricia (Spring 2019). "Isabelle Pinson's Fly Catcher (1808): Genre, Anecdote, and Pictorial Theory". Journal18. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
  2. ^ French Republic 1834, p. 435.
  3. ^ a b c d e Boulinier 1997, p. 352.
  4. ^ a b c Boulinier 2004, p. 250.
  5. ^ Boulinier 2004, p. 249.
  6. ^ Boulinier 2004, p. 249–250.
  7. ^ Guffey 2001, p. 254.
  8. ^ a b Boulinier 2004, p. 250–251.
  9. ^ a b c d Boulinier 2004, p. 252.
  10. ^ a b c Boulinier 2004, p. 253.
  11. ^ a b Boulinier 2004, p. 254.
  12. ^ "Death certificate of Isabelle Pinson". Archived from the original on 24 May 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2024.

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