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Adèle Riché

Adèle Riché

French painter

Adèle Riché (1791–1878) was a French painter.

Quick Facts Born, Died ...

Riché was born, and lived her life in France. A pupil of Jan Frans van Dael and Gerard van Spaendonck.,[1] she is known for her still life paintings, including watercolors,[2] as well as her portraits.[1] Her techniques included botanical, entomological, and natural painting, oil, watercolor, and on vellum, and engraving, as well as hand-colouring.[3]

Riché died in Fontainebleau, France in 1878.

Work

Riché worked primarily in watercolor and her subject of choice was often women, flowers, or fruit.[4] Her portraits were often done in oil; the stylistic preference of the times. Whereas her fruit and still life pieces were done in watercolor.

She painted a portrait of Natalia Obrenovich, Queen of Serbia.[5]

  • Plate 30 from The North American Sylva showing Riché's painting of the Sabal palmetto, originally known as the cabbage tree (Chamærops palmetto).
  • Portrait of Natalia Obrenovich, Queen of Serbia, 1875-1878

References

  1. [1]
    Adèle Riché in the RKD
  2. [2]
    Bryan, Michael (1889). Graves, Robert Edmund; Armstrong, Walter (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical. Vol. II: L–Z. George Bell & Sons. p. 374. OCLC 2660507 – via Google Books.
  3. [3]
    "Last Name: Riché | Given Name: Adèle". Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators 1450–1950. Archived from the original on 31 January 2024. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  4. [4]
    "Artists: Adèle Riché". Invaluable.com. Archived from the original on 5 January 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  5. [5]
    "Portrait of Natalia Obrenovich, Queen of Serbia - Adele Riche". Hermitage Museum. Archived from the original on 31 January 2024. Retrieved 31 January 2024.


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