Marie Bourdereau

Marie Bourdereau
Presumed portrait of Marie Bourdereau by Isabelle Pinson, 19th-century
Born	(1740-01-11)11 January 1740 Brinon-sur-Beuvron, France
Died	9 January 1823(1823-01-09) (aged 82)
Other names	Madame Proteau
Spouse	Fabien Proteau ​ ​ (m. 1768; died 1771)​
Children	Isabelle Pinson

Marie Proteau[note 1] (née Bourdereau; 11 January 1740 – 9 January 1823), commonly known as Madame Proteau, was the wife of Fabien Proteau and mother of genre painter and portraitist, Isabelle Pinson.

Biography

Marie Bourdereau was born in 1740, in the small village in Nièvre of Brinon-sur-Beuvron.[1] She was the eldest daughter of Antoine Bourdereau and Barbe Paul.[1]

In 1758, after the death of her parents, Marie and her six younger siblings were taken in by Isabelle de Jaucourt, sister of Louis de Jaucourt to Paris, France.[1] As eldest, Marie became chambermaid to Isabelle.[note 2][2][3] Isabelle lived in a private mansion on the street of Rue de la Chaise [fr].[1]

Marriage

In 1768, Marie married Fabien Proteau, the valet of the Viscount de Jaucourt.[1] In 1769, they had a daughter, Isabelle Pinson who was named after her godmother, Isabelle de Jaucourt.[1]

On April 17, 1771, Marie became a widow, after 3 years of marriage, her husband, Fabien died.[1] After the death of her spouse, Marie's daughter was cared for by Isabelle de Jaucourt.[4] She received lessons from celebrated artists, Jean-Baptiste Regnault, François-André Vincent and Adelaide Labille-Guiard.[4] On 9 January 1823, at the age of either 82 or 83, Marie died.[5]

Notes

1. (French: [maʁi pʁɔto])
2. In 1783, after the death of Isabelle, her siblings became merchants and bourgeois of Paris.

References

1. Boulinier 1997, p. 352.
2. Boulinier 1997, pp. 351–357.
3. Boulinier 2004, pp. 249–254.
4. Boulinier 2004, p. 250.
5. "Reconstruction death certificate of Marie Bourdereau". Archived from the original on October 7, 2022.

Bibliography

• Boulinier, Georges (1 October 1997). Une artiste à l'Ecole de Médecine de Paris: Isabelle Pinson (1769-1855) [An artist at the Medical School of Paris: Isabelle Pinson (1769-1855)] (PDF) (in French). Vol. 31. Histoire des sciences médicales. pp. 351–357. Retrieved November 2, 2024.
• Boulinier, Georges (2004). "Notes biographiques sur le peintre Isabelle Pinson (1769-1855)" [Biographical notes on the painter Isabelle Pinson (1769-1855)]. Dix-huitieme siècle (in French). 36: 249–254. doi:10.3406/dhs.2004.2609. Retrieved November 2, 2024.