Julie Philipault Explained

Julie Philipault
Birth Name:	Marie-Julie-Victoire Chipault
Birth Place:	Paris
Death Place:	Paris
Birth Date:	9 May 1780
Death Date:	7 January 1862
Nationality:	French

Julie Philipault (Paris, 9 May 1780 - Paris, 7 January 1862) was a French painter.

Biography

Marie-Julie-Victoire Chipault, known as Philpaut.^[1] (or Phlipault, Philipault), was born on 9 May 1780 in Paris, in the Saint-Gervais quarter of the 4th arrondissement^[2] She was the daughter of Louis-Chrisostome Chipault, and his wife, Marie-Élisabeth-Victoire Deschamps de Vallièrre.^[3]

Student of Louise Hersent, she won medals at the Salons of 1814 and 1817.^[4] She is one of only twenty-one women artists to have works in the collections of the Louvre.

She died in the 10th arrondissement of Paris on 23 November 1834.^{[5] [6]}

Selected works

• Racine reading Athalie in front of Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon (1819), oil on canvas, Louvre, Paris.^[7]
• Young Shepherdess admiring Herself in the Water (1821), oil on canvas, Louvre, Paris (currently on loan to Castelnaudary Town Hall).^[8]
• Portrait de Marie-Sylphide Calès, née Chardou (1800–10), oil on canvas, musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, Orléans.
• Portrait of the Painter Jean Henry Marlet, oil on canvas, Musée Cantini, Marseille.^[9]

External links

• Web site: 2020-09-12. en. Phlipaut, Julie. Database of Salon Artists. .

Notes and References

1. Spelling found in the birth certificate access file of the reconstituted civil status file. The spelling of his surname varies greatly depending on the sources: Phlipaut, Phlipault, Philipaut and Philipault are all found.
2. Archives of Paris, Reconstituted civil status file, birth certificates, V3E/N 486, vue 7/51. To find the certificate, look in the Reconstituted civil status files, Type of certificate: birth; Name of person sought: Chipault. The birth certificate access file can be found at view 7/51 of call number V3E/N 486. (Note with links updated in September 2020).
3. Copy of the extract from the baptism register, Acts of the reconstituted civil status of Paris, 5Mi1 58, Image 22 and 23 on 51.
4. Book: Greer, Germaine. The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work. Germaine Greer. Tauris Parke Paperbacks . 2001 . 1860646778. London . 276.
5. Archives of Paris, reconstituted civil status file, death certificates, V3E/D 296, vue 48/51. To find the record, look in the Fichiers de l'état civil reconstitué, Type of record: death; Name of person sought: Chipault. The access file for the death certificate can be found at view 48/51 of call number V3E/D 296.
6. Web site: 2020-09-11. fr. Inventaire après décès de Marie Julie Victoire Chipault dite Philipault, rentière, décédée le 23 novembre 1834. FranceArchives.
7. Web site: 2022-05-25. 2020-10-05. Racine lisant Athalie devant Louis XIV et Madame de Maintenon. Collections - Musée du Louvre.
8. Web site: 2022-05-25. 2020-10-05. Jeune bergère se mirant dans l'eau. Collections - Musée du Louvre.
9. , Retrieved 2022-05-25.