Élisabeth Sophie Chéron

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Élisabeth Sophie Chéron
Painter, engraver, poet, writer, musician Edit this on Wikidata
Spouse(s)Jacques Le Hay Edit this on Wikidata
Parent(s)
  • Henri Chéron Edit this on Wikidata

Élisabeth Sophie Chéron (French pronunciation:

renaissance woman, acclaimed in her lifetime as a gifted poet, musician, artist, and academician
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Life

Portrait of Mme Deshoulières, attributed to Élisabeth Chéron

She was trained by her artist father, while still a child, in the arts of enamelling and miniature painting.

Catherine Girardon, and three years after Madeleine and Geneviève, the two daughters of Louis de Boullogne.[4]

The title page of a 1694 edition of Cheron's translation of the Psalms into French.

She exhibited regularly at the

Jean-Baptiste Drouard de Bousset and Antonia Bembo, a Venetian noblewoman.[5]

She was an affectionate daughter to both her parents and devoted her earnings to her brother

King's engineer, after which she was known as Madame Le Hay.[4]

She died aged 62 and is buried in the

Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris.[1]
The following lines are placed beneath her portrait in the church:

"The unusual possession of two exquisite talents will render Cheron an ornament to France for all time. Nothing save the grace of her brush could equal the excellencies of her pen."

Works

Especially well known are her portrait of

Antoinette Deshoulières
and her Descent from the Cross. Her notable writings are:

  • Psaumes et Cantiques mis en vers, 1694 ; Psalms and Canticles,
  • Le Cantique d'Habacuc et le Psaume, traduit en vers; The Song of Habakkuk and the Psalm, verse translated;
  • Les Cerises Renversées, a small poem published in 1717 after her death, and put into Latin verse by Raux, in 1797.


Notes

  1. ^ a b c Clement Part 2
  2. ^ Elizabeth Cheron Brief Biography at the Brooklyn Museum 'Dinner Party' database of notable women. Accessed October 2017
  3. ISBN 978-1-4094-5742-8
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  4. ^ a b "On this day… was born Élisabeth-Sophie Chéron". Women'n Art. 2018-10-03. Retrieved 2019-09-18.
  5. ^ a b Martayan Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine

References

  • CHÉRON, Elizabeth Sophie Essay de Pseaumes mis en vers. Paris Michel Brunet 1694 listed on Bibliopoly by Martayan Lan, Inc. Accessed December 2007.
  • CHERON, ELIZABETH SOPHIE at Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Clara Erskine Clement, Part 2 out of 7 (1904). Accessed December 2007. At project Gutenberg
  • Keuper, Ulrike, '"… le plaisir que je prens à nourrir ma curiosité“. Elisabeth-Sophie Chéron (1648–1711), die Künstlerin als Sammlerin', in: Kirchner, Thomas (u.a.) (Hrsg.): L'art de l’Ancien Régime. Sortir du rang! (Passages online; vol. 15), Heidelberg 2022, S. 169–190. [1]
  • Meyer, Veronique (2004), 'Elisabeth-Sophie Chéron', Dictionnaire des Femmes de l'ancienne France, SIEFAR [2]
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