Julie Philipault

Julie Philipault (Paris, 9 May 1780 - Paris, 7 January 1862) was a French painter.

Biography
Marie-Julie-Victoire Chipault, known as Philpaut. (or Phlipault, Philipault), was born on 9 May 1780 in Paris, in the Saint-Gervais quarter of the 4th arrondissement She was the daughter of Louis-Chrisostome Chipault, and his wife, Marie-Élisabeth-Victoire Deschamps de Vallièrre.

Student of Louise Hersent, she won medals at the Salons of 1814 and 1817. She is one of only twenty-one women artists to have works in the collections of the Louvre.

She died in the 10th arrondissement of Paris on 23 November 1834.

Selected works

 * Racine reading Athalie in front of Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon (1819), oil on canvas, Louvre, Paris.
 * Young Shepherdess admiring Herself in the Water (1821), oil on canvas, Louvre, Paris (currently on loan to Castelnaudary Town Hall).
 * Portrait de Marie-Sylphide Calès, née Chardou (1800–10), oil on canvas, musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, Orléans.
 * Portrait of the Painter Jean Henry Marlet, oil on canvas, Musée Cantini, Marseille.