Adèle Riché | |
Birth Date: | 1791 |
Birth Place: | Paris, France |
Death Date: | 1878 |
Death Place: | Fontainebleau, France |
Nationality: | French |
Adèle Riché (1791–1878) was a French painter.
Riché was born, and lived her life in France. A pupil of Jan Frans van Dael and Gerard van Spaendonck.,[1] she is known for her still life paintings, including watercolors,[2] as well as her portraits.[1] Her techniques included botanical, entomological, and natural painting, oil, watercolor, and on vellum, and engraving, as well as hand-colouring.[3]
Riché died in Fontainebleau, France in 1878.
Riché worked primarily in watercolor and her subject of choice was often women, flowers, or fruit.[4] Her portraits were often done in oil; the stylistic preference of the times. Whereas her fruit and still life pieces were done in watercolor.
She painted a portrait of Natalia Obrenovich, Queen of Serbia.[5]