Bouguereau and His Circle: Then and Now
Bouguereau and His Circle: Then and Now
Félicie Schneider
Reading Hour
Auction Closed
January 26, 07:56 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Félicie Schneider
French
1831-1888
Reading Hour
signed FELICIE SCHNEIDER (upper right)
oil on canvas
canvas: 28 7/8 by 23 3/8 in.; 72.7 by 59.5 cm
framed: 39 1/2 by 34 3/4 in.; 100.3 by 88.2 cm
Born in Saint-Cloud, Félicie Schneider (1831-1888) first learned to paint from her father, Amable Nicolas Fournier, and later attended the popular workshop for women run by Leon Cogniet, which he operated between 1840 and 1860 with his sister, Marie Amélie and one of his students, Catherine Caroline Thévenin (1813–1892), who later became his wife. Schneider began exhibiting at the Salon in 1849.