Hélène Marie Antigna Explained

Hélène Marie Antigna
Birth Date:	8 July 1837
Birth Place:	Melun, France
Education:	Jean Pierre Antigna and Eugène Delacroix
Occupation:	painter

Hélène Marie Antigna (8 July 1837 – 10 March 1918) was a French painter.

Hélène-Marie Pettit^[1] was born at Melun), 8 July 1837.She was a pupil of her husband, Jean Pierre Antigna, and of Eugène Delacroix. Her best works are small genre subjects. She exhibited every year after 1861; Chercheuse de bois mort (1861) and Retour du contrebandier (1868) are mentioned.^[2] In 1877, she exhibited at the Paris Salon, On n'entre pas! and the New Cider; in 1876, an Interior at Saint Brieuc and A Stable; in 1875, Tant va la cruche à l'eau.^[3]

External links

• Marie Helene Antigna on Artnet

Notes and References

1. Book: Turner, Jane. The Dictionary of Art. 11 February 2003. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-517068-9. 33–.
2. Book: Bitard, Adolphe Louis Émile. Adolphe Bitard. Dictionnaire de biographie contemporaine, française et étrangère ... augm. d'un supplément comprenant les additions et changements divers survenus pendant l'impression, par Ad. Bitard. Public domain. 1880. L. Vanier. 40–.
3. Book: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement. Women in the Fine Arts: From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.. Public domain. 1904. Houghton, Mifflin. 17–18.