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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

Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 11 January 1999, lot 267

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.