Marie Bracquemond
Marie Bracquemond was a French Impressionist artist, who was described retrospectively by Henri Focillon in 1928 as one of les trois grandes dames of Impressionism alongside Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt. Her frequent omission from books on women artists is sometimes attributed to the efforts of her husband, Flix Bracquemond. Flix respected his wifes talents as an artist but disagreed fervently with her adaptation of Impressionist techniques, in particular her use of color.
She was born Marie Anne Caroline Quivoron on December 1, 1840 in ArgentonenLandunvez, near Brest, Brittany. She did not enjoy the same upbringing or career as the other well known female Impressionists160 Cassatt, Morisot, Gonzals. She was the child of an unhappy arranged marriage. Her father, a sea captain, died shortly after her birth. Her mother Aline Hyacinthe Marie Pasquiou quickly remarried to mile Langlois, and thereafter they led an unsettled existence, moving from Brittany to the Jura, to Switzerland, and to Limousin, before settling in tampes, south of Paris. She had one sister, Louise, born in 1849 while her family lived near Ussel in the ancient abbey NotreDame de Bonnaigue.
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