Félicie de Fauveau

Born: Florence, 1799

Died: Florence, c. 1886

Nationality: French


Works by this Artist

Christina of Sweden Refusing to Spare the Life of Her Equerry, Monaldeschi
Félicie de Fauveau, 1827

Background

daughter of a Breton banker

Studies

with painters Louis Hersent (1777-1860) and Claude Guillot (Paris)

Career

1827 – Christina of Sweden Refusing to Spare the Life of Her Equerry, Monaldeschi wins second place medal at Paris Salon

1830 – participates in the anti-revolutionary royalist uprising  in the Vendée

1832 - imprisoned for royalist sympathies

1834 – flees Paris, settles in Florence

Travels

Brussels (1834); Florence (1834-86)

Important Artworks

Louise Favreau, 1858 (formerly in Santa Croce, Florence)

Review of 2014 Faveau exhibition

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