Lise Cloquet (also known as Anne-Louise Cloquet; 1788 (Paris) –30 October 1860 (Paris))[1][2][3] was a French botanical painter.

Lise Cloquet
Born1788 (1788)
Died1860 (aged 71–72)
NationalityFrench
Known forbotanical painting
Mums, Chrysanths, 1820

Cloquet was taught to draw by her father[4] and was influenced by the botanical illustrator Pierre-Joseph Redouté.[5]

32 of her works, including one of a white chrysanthemum, from 1820 are currently housed at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Upperville, Virginia.[5][6]

Family edit

Her father, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Cloquet, was an illustrator and engraver.[1] Her brother, Jules Cloquet, was a doctor.[7]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Camellia - Cloquet, Lise". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  2. ^ "Lise Cloquet". RKD (in Dutch). Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  3. ^ Archives de Paris 6e, acte No. 2251, année 1860 (vue 28/31).
  4. ^ "Celebrating the Women of Botanical Art - Victoria Magazine". Victoria. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  5. ^ a b "Oak Spring Garden Foundation on Google Arts & Culture". Botanical Art and Artists. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  6. ^ Tomasi, Lucia Tongiorgi (1997). An Oak Spring Flora. Oak Spring Garden Library. p. 310. ISBN 9780300071399.
  7. ^ "CAHIER DE VACANCES – Gustave Flaubert, des Pyrénées à la Corse". presselib.com (in French). 30 July 2020. Retrieved 2022-03-05.

External links edit

  Media related to Lise Cloquet at Wikimedia Commons