Marguerite Émilie Julie Putsage | |
Birth Date: | 1868 11, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Mons, Hainaut, Belgium |
Death Place: | Brussels, Brabant, Belgium |
Nationality: | Belgian |
Field: | Painting, Sculpture |
Marguerite Émilie Julie Putsage (1868–1946) was a Belgian artist, particularly known for her portraits and flower paintings.[1]
Putsage was born on 15 November 1868 in Mons, the daughter of Jules Maximilien Joseph Putsage and Marie Thérèse Philippine De Puydt.[2] Her father was director of the Union du Crédit in Mons.[2] She was a student of Auguste Danse,[3] and was also artistically influenced by, a family friend, and by Eugène Carrière, whose work she greatly admired.[2] She taught an art history course at the École des Mines (which later became the Faculté polytechnique de Mons).[2]
She died in Brussels on 22 September 1946. Her work is in the collection of (BAM),[4] as well as public museums in Ghent and Ixelles.[2]