Pauline Couriard (1848 in Saint Petersburg[1] – 1898 in Saint Petersburg[2]), born Pelageia Petrovna Vokhina, was a Russian painter, an honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Arts.[3] She is best known for founding and chairing the First Ladies Art Circle in Saint Petersburg.[4] She exhibited her artworks throughout Europe.[5]
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| Born | Pelageia Petrovna Vokhina 1848 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Died | 1898 (aged 49–50) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Awards | 2 silver medals from Imperial Academy of Arts |
Life and work
editPelageia Vokhina was born in 1848 in Saint Petersburg in an old nobility family.[1] Her father, Piotr Vokhin, was a general in the Russian army.[3][6] She was educated under the guidance of a popular artist Lev Lagorio.[2] She exhibited for the first time at the age of 28 and it was a success.[1]
Vokhina married a Swiss doctor Alfred Couriard, who worked in Mariinski hospital in Saint Petersburg and took his family name.[5] Several years preceding her husband's death Couriard was living in Geneve.[2] She exhibited her landscapes at the Imperial Academy of Arts, where she received 2 silver medals, and in 1882 was recognized as an honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Arts.[3]
In 1882 Couriard returned to Saint Petersburg.[1] The same year she founded the First Ladies Art Circle aimed to facilitate women's access to the courses provided by the Academy of Fine Arts.[7] She chaired the First Ladies Art Circle for more than ten years. In 1892 on the occasion of tenth anniversary of the First Ladies Art Circle Couriard received a series of drawings as a gift from the members of the Circle.[8] Geneve museum bequested these drawings in 1899.[9] The drawings donated by Pauline Couriard were featured in the exhibition Russian painters and travelers of 19th century at the Museum of Art and History in Geneva in 2008–2009.[2]
Pauline Couriard died in 1898 in Saint Petersburg.[3]
Examples of works
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Windmill, c.1880 -
Summer landscape, c.1884 -
Wintry landscape, c.1875
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Dans le sillage des peintres russes". ArcInfo (in French). Retrieved 2019-12-21.
- ^ a b c d "Тайна красного ящика". nashagazeta.ch (in Russian). 2008-12-03. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
- ^ a b c d "Histara - Les comptes rendus". histara.sorbonne.fr. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
- ^ "Pauline Couriard (1848-1898)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
- ^ a b chauvy, laurence (2008-12-20). "Voyage dans l'imaginaire russe du XIXe". Le Temps (in French). ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
- ^ Булгаков, Ф. И. (1889). Наши художники (Живописцы, скульпторы, мозаичисты, граверы и медальеры) на академических выставках последнего 25-летия. Биографии, портреты художников и снимки с их произведений. Типография А. С. Суворина. pp. 227–229, 234.
- ^ "Pauline Couriard (1848-1898) - Actualités - DessinOriginal.com". www.dessinoriginal.com. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
- ^ "Peintres et voyageurs russes du XIXe siècle |". Retrieved 2019-12-21.
- ^ "9782757202289: Peintres et voyageurs russes du XIXe siècle : Collection du Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève - IberLibro - Menz, Cäsar: 2757202286". www.iberlibro.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-12-21.