Showing posts with label Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

François de Lorraine, Duke of Guise, receiving the surrender of Spanish troops (1837)

Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot: François de Lorraine, Duke of Guise, 
receiving the surrender of Spanish troops after the Capture of Thionville, June 23, 1558

Friday, April 12, 2013

Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot (1800)

Here's a self-portrait by another female painter, Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot.


The painter lived and worked in Italy for some years before returning to France.  She was a prolific artist, exhibiting around 110 paintings at the Paris Salon between 1811 and 1840.