Virginie Ancelot Explained

Marguerite-Louise Virginie Chardon Ancelot (1792 - 1875) was a French painter, writer and playwright.^{[1] [2]} Ancelot was born to a parliamentary family in Dijon, and was married to playwright Jacques-François Ancelot.^[2] From 1824 to 1866 Ancelot hosted a literary salon on Paris's rue de Seine.^[2]

Her plays were collected in four volumes and published as Theâtre complet in 1848.^[1] She published two memoirs: Les Salons de Paris, foyers éteints (1858) and Un salon de Paris 1824-64 (1866).^[1] Her most important novels include Georgine (1855), Une route sans issue (1857), and Un nœud de ruban (1858).^[1]

Exhibitions

• La Veuve du Roi Ban and several portraits, Salon of 1814^[3]
• Louis XIV, at the death bed of Jacques II, Salon of 1817^[4]

Collections

• Musée Carnavalet, Paris : François Ancelot (1794-1854), auteur dramatique, 1819, oil on canvas^[5]

Bibliography

• Henry Gardiner Adams.

Notes and References

1. Book: Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century France . registration . Cambridge University Press . Finch, Alison . 2000 . 249 . 9780521631860.
2. Book: French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848 . JHU Press . Kale, Steven . 2005 . 231 . 9780801883866.
3. Web site: Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure des artistes vivans... . Gallica . EN . 1814.
4. Web site: Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure des artistes vivans... . Gallica . EN . 1817.
5. Web site: François Ancelot (1794-1854), auteur dramatique. Paris Musées . www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr.