Elise Ransonnet-Villez Explained

Elise Ransonnet-Villez
Birth Date:8 October 1843
Birth Place:Vienna
Death Date:25 October 1899
Death Place:Brixen
Nationality:Austrian

Elise Ransonnet-Villez or Elisa Nemes-Ransonnet (1843–1899) was an Austrian painter.

Ransonnet-Villez was born in Vienna and became a pupil of Franz von Lenbach and Heinrich von Angeli.[1] She exhibited in Vienna and Munich. She became a baroness when she married the Hungarian count Nemes Nándorné. In 1879 she painted the portrait of Franz Liszt.[2] Ransonnet-Villez died in Brixen.

Notes and References

  1. http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00129454 Benézit
  2. https://androom.home.xs4all.nl/biography/i002649.htm Liszt painting in Budapest