Henriette Browne

Sophie de Bouteiller (June 16, 1829 – 1901), better known by the pseudonym Henriette Browne, was a French Orientalist painter and traveler.[1]

Browne was born in Paris on June 16, 1829.[2] She was the wife of diplomat Henry Jules de Saux, secretary of Count Walewksi.[3] She is considered a pioneer in Orientalist painting.

Selected works

Enfant écrivant (1860–1880), Victoria and Albert Museum
La Lecture de la Bible (1857), Christchurch Art Gallery (New Zealand)
Le Catéchisme (1857)
La religieuse (1859), National Museums Liverpool
Une Beauté Orientale (1861), private collection
La captive grecque (1863), National Gallery
Fellah nord africaine (1867), private collection
Portrait de femme (1877), private collection

References

^ Karel, David (1992) (in French). Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord. Québec: Musée du Québec. pp. 122–123. ISBN 2763772358.
^ Yeldham, Charlotte (1984). Women artists in nineteenth-century France and England. p. 345.
^ Marc Favreau, Guillaume Glorieux, Jean-Philippe Luis, and Pauline Prevost-Marcilhacy, ed (2009) (in French). De l'usage de l'art en politique. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal. p. 69. ISBN 978-2-84516-426-0.

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