Emma_De_Vigne

Emma De Vigne

Emma De Vigne

Belgian painter


Emma De Vigne (30 January 1850 - 3 June 1898) was a Belgian still life and portrait painter, who came from a family of artists from Ghent. Her paintings were exhibited in Europe, as well as in South America.

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Biography

De Vigne was born on 30 January 1850 in Ghent.[1] The family were all artists: her father, Pieter, and uncle, Felix, were sculptors, and she and her sisters, Louise and Malvina, were painters.[2][3] It was her uncle, Félix De Vigne, taught her to paint; she later married his son, her cousin Jules De Vigne, who was a lawyer and a writer.[4]

During her lifetime De Vigne was known as a flower, and later portrait painter, who specialised in still life.[5] Her works often sold for over 1000 Belgian Francs, which was notable for a female painter at the time,[6] and were often exhibited alongside other female painters.[6] These women formed a new generation of Flemish artists.[7]

Still life of flowers by Emma De Vigne

In 1887 her work was displayed in Buenos Aires in an exhibition of Belgian art, which opened there on 5 October.[8] Her painting "Fleur de thé" was sold to banker Lisandro Bellinghurst.[8] De Vigne exhibited her work in the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[9]

De Vigne died on 3 June 1898 in Ghent.[1] She is buried in Ghent Westerbegraafplaats.[10] After her death, her husband published a selection of his writings, which were dedicated to her memory.[11]

Legacy

De Vigne's paintings are held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent[12] and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.[13]


References

  1. "Ontdek schilder Emma De Vigne". rkd.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  2. Creusen, Alexia. (2007). Femmes artistes en Belgique. Paris: Harmattan. p. 339. ISBN 978-2-296-03372-6. OCLC 173671622.
  3. Huys, Paul (1979). "De kunstenaarsfamilie(s) De Vigne te Gent". Ghendtsche Tydinghen (in Dutch). 8 (1). doi:10.21825/gt.v8i1.7416. ISSN 1783-9033.
  4. "figuration feminine : Emma De Vigne (1850-1898)". figuration feminine. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  5. Herman, Jean-Pierre. "De kunstenaarsfamilie de Vigne." Ghendtsche Tydinghen 27.3 (1998).
  6. Laoureux, Denis. "Le Cercle des femmes peintres de Bruxelles : un collectif, quatre expositions (1888-1893)." Artl@s Bulletin 8, no. 1 (2019): Article 4.
  7. Laoureux, Denis. "La vocation artistique à l’épreuve du genre dans la Belgique du XIXe siècle." Femmes artistes. Les peintresses en Belgique (1880-1914) (2016): 47-65.
  8. DHAENENS, LAURENS. "peculiar relationships on display." The Exhibition: Histories, Practices, Policies (2019): 159.
  9. "Emma De Vigne (1850-1898) - Find A Grave Memorial". www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  10. Willemsfonds. Victor de, H.-f. (1908). Uitgave. p.XV.
  11. "Self-portrait - Emma De Vigne". USEUM. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  12. Musées royaux des beaux-arts de, B. (1994). Le musée caché: à la découverte des réserves: Musée royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique.

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