Julie Hugo French School Early 19th.Century Portrait Of The Artists Sister

Julie Hugo (Louise Rose Julie Duvidal de Montferrier 1797-1865). French School Early 19th.Century.

Portrait of Zöe Jacqueline Duvidal de Montferrier, The artists sister. Circa 1815.

Pencil and Wash, Inscribed on label verso. 40.6 x 33cm. Slight foxing to no real detriment. Superb Empire period gilt gesso frame.

Julie Hugo was born in Paris, daughter of Jean Jacques Duvidal Marquis de Montferrier (1752-1829). She was a student of Jacques Louis David and later François Gérard. She served as an official copyist of works by Ingres and Delacroix, and often copied works by her mentor Gérard for French institutions. Of her original works, many portraits and historical paintings were exhibited at the Salon from 1819 to 1827. She painted two mythological scenes to be hung above doors in the Chateau Rambouillet these are now displayed in the Louvre. She has the distinction of being the only female artist to have a painting hanging in the French National Assembly. This work, The Vow of St. Clothilde (1819), has hung there for two centuries.