Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet

Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet
Born
Jeanne-Elisabeth Gabiou

Paris, France
Died18 April 1832
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Spouse(s)Antoine Denis Chaudet (1793–1810)
Pierre-Arsène Denis Husson (1812–18??)

Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet (née Gabiou; died 18 April 1832) was a French painter and the wife of the sculptor Antoine Denis Chaudet, who had also been her teacher.

Her father, Louis Gabiou, was a wig maker. After the death of her first husband in 1810, she married, secondly, in 1812, to Pierre-Arsène Denis Husson, a civil servant. Her painting Portrait of Madame Villot, née Barbier, was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[1] She continued to exhibit at the Salon until 1817. She died of cholera.

Chaudet was the sister-in-law of painter Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou;[2] she was also a first cousin of Gabiou and her sisters, Marie-Denise Villers and Marie-Victoire Lemoine.

  1. ^ Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905
  2. ^ Profile of Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou at the Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800.