Madeleine LEMAIRE (1845-1928)
Roses dans un vase
Undated, Watercolour
Private collection
Madeleine LEMAIRE • Roses dans un vase
A pupil of the painter Charles Chaplin from the age of twelve, Madeleine Lemaire was a highly acclaimed watercolour painter, particularly in the United States, where she was considered the most important female painter alongside
Rosa Bonheur. Alexandre Dumas fils said that ‘she created the most roses after God’, earning her the nickname ‘the empress of roses’. In 1903, Marcel Proust described her salon as ‘La cour aux lilas et l'atelier des roses’. A full member of the Société des aquarellistes français and a botanical drawing teacher at the Musée national d'Histoire naturelle, she was awarded a silver medal for her body of work at the 1900 Universal Exhibition.
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