Madeleine Carpentier

Madeleine Carpentier (3 February 1865 – 13 September 1949) was a French painter.

Madeleine Carpentier
Madeleine Carpentier - selfportrait
Born	3 February 1865
Died	13 September 1949 (1949-09-14) (aged 84)
Nationality	French
Known for	Painting

She was born in Paris and became a pupil of Adrien Bonnefoy and later studied under Jules Lefebvre at the Académie Julian.^[1] She showed works at the Paris Salon from 1885 and her work Les Chandelles was purchased by the city of Paris in 1896.^[1] A portrait she painted of her sister is in the collection of Musée des Beaux-arts de Nantes.^[2]

Her painting Les Chandelles was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.^[3] Her daughter Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier, a sculptor, made a sculpture of her for the family grave in Père-Lachaise cemetery.

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  La poupée malade, ca.1925
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  Les Chandelles, 1896
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  Portrait Marie-Paule Carpentier
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  Portrait