Jacqueline Comerre-Paton

Jacqueline Comerre, née Paton (1 May 1859 – 1955) was a French painter and sculptor, and the wife of the painter Léon-François Comerre (1850-1916).

Comerre-Paton was born in Paris. Her mother was Émilie-Thérèse Paton (1820 - 1887), known by the pen of Jacques Rozier, a French novelist and playwright. Her father was economist Jules Paton, financial columnist at the Journal des débats.

Jacqueline studied at the École des Beaux-arts under Alexandre Cabanel. She was friends with portrait painter Fanny Caillé who reproduced one of her most famous paintings, At the spring.

She received an honorable mention in 1881 and a medal at the Versailles exhibition.

Her painting Mistletoe was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.

Comerre-Paton died in Paris.

Selected works
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 * The Annunciation
 * An ass skin (Donkey skin)
 * At the spring
 * La chanson des bois
 * Chaperon rouge
 * Faneuse
 * L'Ignorance
 * Jeune fille aux papillons
 * Jeune fille à la source
 * Jeune Hollandaise
 * Mignon
 * Mistletoe
 * Portrait de Mlle. Marguerite Ugalde
 * Portrait de paysanne
 * Sonioutchka
 * A young beauty
 * Young Dutch