The musée Jean-Honoré Fragonard, located in the southern French city, is showing works by the Lemoine sisters—four late 18th and early 19th-century painters—to shed light on a hitherto obscure chapter in art history.
Marie-Victoire Lemoine, (1754-1820), assumed to be a portrait of Pulchérie de Genlis, 1789, oil on canvas, 92.7 x 74 cm/36.49 x 29.13 in, private collection.
© Studio Sebert Fragonard Parfumeur
Exhibitions of women artists are in vogue, “but to show them properly, you have to study them first,” says curator Carole Blumenfeld , who has often written for this magazine. While researching a painting to be sold at Drouot attributed to Marie-Victoire Lemoine, she discovered that it was actually by her sibling Marie-Élisabeth. The art historian took a closer look at the four Lemoine sisters and their cousin Jeanne-Élisabeth Chaudet. About 10 of the nearly 30 works in the exhibition have never been seen before and…
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