Marie Jeanne Clemens
Appearance
Marie Jeanne Clemens | |
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Born | Marie Jeanne Crévoisier 16 November 1755 Paris, France |
Died | 20 March 1791 Berlin, Germany | (aged 35)
Nationality | French-Danish |
Known for | Engraving, Painting |
Spouse |
Johan Frederik Clemens
(m. 1781) |
Marie Jeanne Clemens (née Crévoisier, 16 November 1755 – 20 March 1791) was a French-Danish artist; engraver and pastell painter.
She was the daughter of the clock maker Claude Joseph Crévoisier and Marie Thérèse Blot in Paris. From 1773 she was the student and from 1781 the spouse of the Danish artist Johan Frederik Clemens, with whom she moved to Denmark after their wedding.
She was inducted as an agrée to the Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1782.[1]
In 1788, she moved to Berlin, where she died of consumption (tuberculosis). She was also a member of the Berlin Academy.[2]
References
- ^ Nielsen, Claudine Stensgaard. "Marie Jeanne Clemens (1755 - 1791)" (in Danish). Biographical Encyclopedia of Danish Women.
- ^ Brodsky, Judith K. (Summer 1976). "Some Notes on Women Printmakers". Art Journal. 35 (4): 375. doi:10.2307/776231. JSTOR 776231.
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- 18th-century French painters
- 18th-century French engravers
- 18th-century women artists
- 18th-century deaths from tuberculosis
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- 18th-century French women
- Artists from Paris
- Danish people of French descent
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- Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni
- Danish engravers
- 18th-century Danish printmakers
- Danish women painters
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