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Virginie Elodie Marie Therese Demont-Breton BIOGRAPHY
1859 Courrieres, France - 1935 Paris, France. Known for: Portrait, child figure, genre painting.
Virginie Élodie Marie Thérèse Demont-Breton (26 July 1859, Courrières – 10 January 1935, Paris) was a French painter. Her father Jules Breton and her uncle Émile Breton were both well-known painters.... Read full biography
Virginie Élodie Marie Thérèse Demont-Breton (26 July 1859, Courrières – 10 January 1935, Paris) was a French painter. Her father Jules Breton and her uncle Émile Breton were both well-known painters. Through her father she was introduced to other painters- the most influential being Rosa Bonheur... Read full biography
Virginie Élodie Marie Thérèse Demont-Breton (26 July 1859, Courrières – 10 January 1935, Paris) was a French painter. Her father Jules Breton and her uncle Émile Breton were both well-known painters. Through her father she was introduced to other painters- the most influential being Rosa Bonheur who became a role-model and mentor to Virginie. She married the painter Adrien Demont in 1880. Her artistic career got off to an early start due to her having family ties with painters, and she finished... Read full biography
Virginie Élodie Marie Thérèse Demont-Breton (26 July 1859, Courrières – 10 January 1935, Paris) was a French painter. Her father Jules Breton and her uncle Émile Breton were both well-known painters. Through her father she was introduced to other painters- the most influential being Rosa Bonheur who became a role-model and mentor to Virginie. She married the painter Adrien Demont in 1880. Her artistic career got off to an early start due to her having family ties with painters, and she finished her first painting at the young age of fourteen. By the age of twenty, she was exhibiting at the Salon where she received an Honorable Mentions and, four years later, she won a Gold Medal at the Amsterdam Exposition. In 1890, she and her husband... Read full biography
Virginie Élodie Marie Thérèse Demont-Breton (26 July 1859, Courrières – 10 January 1935, Paris) was a French painter. Her father Jules Breton and her uncle Émile Breton were both well-known painters. Through her father she was introduced to other painters- the most influential being Rosa Bonheur who became a role-model and mentor to Virginie. She married the painter Adrien Demont in 1880. Her artistic career got off to an early start due to her having family ties with painters, and she finished her first painting at the young age of fourteen. By the age of twenty, she was exhibiting at the Salon where she received an Honorable Mentions and, four years later, she won a Gold Medal at the Amsterdam Exposition. In 1890, she and her husband moved to Wissant, a small village on the Côte d'Opale, where they built a villa designed by the Belgian architect Edmond De Vigne ... Read full biography
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Virginie Élodie Marie Thérèse Demont-Breton (26 July 1859, Courrières – 10 January 1935, Paris) was a French painter.
Her father Jules Breton and her uncle Émile Breton were both well-known painters. Through her father she was introduced to other painters- the most influential being Rosa Bonheur who became a role-model and mentor to Virginie. She married the painter Adrien Demont in 1880.
Her artistic career got off to an early start due to her having family ties with painters, and she finished her first painting at the young age of fourteen. By the age of twenty, she was exhibiting at the Salon where she received an Honorable Mentions and, four years later, she won a Gold Medal at the Amsterdam Exposition.
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