Talk:Marie Bracquemond

Lead image
There are any number of good images to use to replace the terrible image in the lead. Viriditas (talk) 21:25, 15 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Done. Viriditas (talk) 00:35, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Collected works

 * Bracquemond produced 156 original works, of which only 31 have been located and catalgoued in existing collections today, with the rest having disappeared into various private collections without record.

I will attempt to find all of them, as time permits. Viriditas (talk) 00:30, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Help, is of course, greatly appreciated. Viriditas (talk) 00:32, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Update: I found approximately 50 or so and will make a list asap. Many do not have dates or signatures. Viriditas (talk) 00:10, 20 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Public collections

Incomplete list:


 * Art Institute of Chicago
 * Artizon Museum, Tokyo
 * Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
 * Musée Adrien Dubouché, Limoges
 * Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen
 * Musée Fabre, Montpellier
 * Musée d’Orsay
 * Petit Palais, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
 * Rhode Island School of Design Museum

Criticism of this article by Neil Philip
Writer Neil Philip brings up an excellent criticism of this article from 2012, mostly due to its reliance on secondary sources. I thought I was the only one who picked up on this critical inconsistency, but it looks like Philip noticed it as well. While there's no doubt that Marie's husband stood in the way of her career, the generally accepted notion that it was solely due to his hatred of Impressionism doesn't really make sense when you look closely at the history of Impressionism and Felix's role in the movement. Philip makes this point in the above linked essay, and I let out a large sigh of relief when I saw it for the first time. Something isn't quite right with this historical narrative and I'm afraid the blind reliance on secondary sources is causing much of the confusion. Felix was a major player in the Impressionistic art movement as Philip notes in his essay and as I've independently discovered in older sources. So how is it that we can attribute his hatred of a movement that he participated in as the culprit for Marie's stagnating career? It makes no sense. More emphasis should be given to the other reasons we find in the sources, namely Felix's overt jealousy of Marie's talent, his overarching control over her life as a sexist French patriarch (like most men of the time and place), and his refusal to ever give in to an argument over art, as the tales of the raucous dinner conversations make clear. But solely blaming this on his hatred of Impressionism, a movement he participated in as a member? It just doesn't hold up, as Philip reminds us. Viriditas (talk) 21:52, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

Unpublished short biography by her son

 * Much of what is known of Bracquemond's personal life comes from an unpublished short biography authored by her son, entitled La Vie de Félix et Marie Bracquemond.

For some reason, it is driving me crazy that I am unable to find a copy of this manuscript. Surely, it must be available somewhere? Viriditas (talk) 02:22, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Note, this was solved by fiveby on refdesk. Basically, the source isn't all that good and isn't that useful. Viriditas (talk) 08:06, 4 August 2023 (UTC)