Henriette Browne
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Orientalism, Genre Narratives, Portraiture Art Work
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Henriette Browne |
| Gender: |
Female |
| Place of Birth: |
Paris, France |
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| Birth: |
1829 |
| Death: |
1901 |
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Quick Facts
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Orientalism, Genre Narratives, Portraiture |
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Oil on canvas |
| Style: |
Orientalism, Realism |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painting
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Biography
Henriette Browne was born Sophie Boutetller and married Comte Jules de Saux. She adopted her pseudonym from her debut at the Paris Salon of 1853 onwards. This may have been intended to distance her work as a painter from her role as a diplomat's wife, although the two came together when she used her travels with her husband (including to Constantinople. Egypt, Syria and Morocco} as subject matter for her art.
Browne exhibited mainly in France and England, and was one of three women among the founders of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Paris in 1862. In London her work was exhibited at the Royal Academy, the French Gallery, Pall Mall, and the Society of Female Artists. Her reputation in Britain was such that she was among the small group of French artists that the young painter Elizabeth Southerden Thompson (later Lady Butler) chose to visit in Paris in 1874. Browne also showed her work at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1855, and the
International Colonial Exhibition in Amsterdam in 1883.
Browne's academic paintings of religious and oriental subjects appealed to British and French audiences during the age of empire. A key part of the mission to conquer and 'civilize' was the conversion of colonial subjects to Christianity. Browne painted white European women as religious figures, sometimes tending the sick or at their devotions, as in The Puritans (La Lecture de la Bible) of 1857. which was bought by Empress Eugenie of France (Robert McDougall Art Gallery. Christchurch. New Zealand). She also represented woman as exotic colonial 'other'- She painted dancing girls and harems, and her Moorish Girl with Parakeet (1875) is in the Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth. But Browne only won second-class and third-class medals at the Paris Salon. The reason for this becomes dear looking at contemporary criticism of her work. |
Samples of Work
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