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Constance Marie Charpentier was also known as Constance Marie Blondelu (upon marriage) (born 4 April 1767 Paris, France – 3 August 1849 Paris, France)[1] was a French painter who died at the age of 82 from unknown reasons. She specialized in genre scenes and portraits, mainly of children and women.

Early Life
Constance Marie Charpentier, also known as Constance Marie Blondelu, was a French Artist born in Paris, France on April 4,1767 and died at the age of 82 on August 3,1849 from unknown reasons. It is unknown where Constance attended school and why Charpentier fell in love with the Arts but it was stated that she has studied with another French painter, Jacques-Louis David. Charpentier may have been a pupil of  François Gérard, Pierre Bouillon, Louis Lafitte, and possibly Johann Georg Wille or  his son, Pierre-Alexandre Wille

Career
At the age of 21, Constance was finally recognized for her talent of painting women and children. In 1798, she received a Prix d’Encouragement for her pendant paintings, “Widow of a Day” and “Widow of a Year”, which means that Constance received a commission to be auctioned off. In 1814, Constance received a gold medal in 1814 for exhibiting artwork at the Paris Salon and a silver medal in 1821 at Salon at Douai France. At the time that Constance was making her artwork, men were taking credit for any work women made. Constance was a victim of this. Jacques-Louis David took credit of several pieces of artwork that Constance created. This is one reason why it is difficult to find Constance’s work. You can talk about how her work is difficult to find, and how that may have affected her career. The 1801 well-known painting “Young Woman Drawing”, was miscredited to both Jacques-Louis David and Constance but belonged to Marie-Denise Villers.

From 1795 up until 1819, Constance exhibited 30 of her paintings that were displayed unto various salons. Furthermore, this was a milestone for Constance after her work would always be incorrectly attributed to all other artists. Sadly, it is hard to find all of Charpentier's work; only “Melancholy” is simple to find. Even though Constance was a very unknown artist, people loved how she stuck to painting only women and children since they were often forgotten in the art world and even most of the time discredited.