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(2) Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet [née Gabiou]
(b Paris, 23 Jan 1767; d Paris, 18 April 1832). Painter, wife of (1) Antoine-Denis Chaudet. She exhibited in the Salon between 1798 and 1817. From the beginning she enjoyed the approval of the public and the critics. The Little Girl Trying to Teach her Dog to Read (exh. Salon, 1799; Rochefort, Mus. Mun.) made her famous. The Empress Josephine bought Young Girl Feeding Chicks (exh. Salon, 1802; Arenenberg, Napoleonmus.) for the gallery at Malmaison. Chaudet increasingly produced genre scenes incorporating young girls, children and pets, such as Child Sleeping in a Cradle Watched by a Good Dog (exh. Salon, 1801; Rochefort, Mus. Mun.) and Young Girl Crying over her Dead Pigeon (exh. Salon, 1808; Arras, Mus. B.-A.). She used muted colours, for which she was reproached by the critics, a mannered style of drawing and an extremely glacial finish. The figures are often seen in profile, like antique bas-reliefs, and have a marmoreal quality, particularly in Young Girl Feeding Chicks, perhaps influenced by her husband’s work as a sculptor. She is best known as a genre painter but also produced a large number of portraits, such as the full-length portrait of a Young Child in a Lancer’s Costume (c. 1808; Arras, Mus. B.-A.). Chaudet obtained a Prix d’Encouragement at the Salon of 1812 for the Little Girl Eating Cherries (Paris, Mus. Marmottan), but after 1812 her popularity declined. Her second husband, Pierre-Arsène-Denis Husson, whom she married in 1812, left an important collection of her work to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in the Abbaye St-Vaast, Arras.
Part of the Chaudet family
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