Madeleine Carpentier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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painter from France
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Place of Birth: 10th arrondissement of Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Madeleine Carpentier
- Madeleine Carpentier (1865 – 1949) was a French painter. She was born in Paris and became a pupil of Adrien Bonnefoy and later studied under Jules Lefebvre at the Académie Julian.
- She showed works at the Paris Salon from 1885 and her work Les Chandelles was purchased by the city of Paris in 1896.
- A portrait she painted of her sister is in the collection of Musée des Beaux-arts de Nantes.Her painting Les Chandelles was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.
- Her daughter Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier, a sculptor, made a sculpture of her for the family grave in Père-Lachaise cemetery.
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