11 Works, November 22nd. is Consuelo Fould's day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #239

Consuelo Fould

La semeuse d'étoiles/ The star sower, circa 1925

Oil on panel

Musée Roybet Fould

Consuelo Fould, born November 22, 1862, in Cologne (Germany), arrived in France in 1864, with her parents, Valérie Simonin and Gustave Fould. She trained very young with her mother, a former actress who practiced sculpture with Mathieu-Meunier, also professor of Sarah Berhnardt.

Consuelo Fould (French painter, 1862-1927)

The folklore of the three Stes Marie of the sea, c. 1918

Oil on canvas

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Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, an ancient town in the marshes of the Camargue, where the Rhône meets the Mediterranean Sea, is named after The Three Marys — in French, Marie Madeleine, Marie Salomé and Marie de Cléophas —, a group of three women closely linked to Jesus, as according to the gospels they came to his sepulchre three days after the Crucifixion and were the first witnesses of his Resurrection. The designation "de-la-Mer" (of the sea) derives from a medieval tradition that after Jesus' Resurrection, The Three Marys escaped the Christian persecution in Palestine and travelled across the sea by boat, living in the Camargue the rest of their lives and helping to bring Christianity to France. More on Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer

Consuelo Fould trained with influential masters of the French school, former teachers of fine arts or members of various juries. In 1884, she began an official career at the Salon des Artistes Français where she exhibited annually. She draws her subjects from the press and literature in a style close to the advertising poster. The excessively theatrical genre scenes highlight female portraits, which in her constitutes a form of activism. Critics, collectors and amateurs salute her production, which is regularly reproduced in the contemporary press.

Consuelo Fould (French, 1862–1927)

Will you buy , c. 1892

Oil on Canvas

48 x 30 in. (121.9 x 76.2 cm.)

Private collection

Consuelo Fould (French, 1862–1927)

The Matchmaker , c. 1885-1890

Oil on Canvas

Roybet Fould Museum

Member of the Society of French Artists, Consuelo Fould exhibited regularly between 1884 and 1911. She participated with her sister, Achille-Fould, in the exhibitions of the Union of Women Painters and Sculptors and of the National Society of Fine Arts. She took part in the Winter Fair and that of the French School without counting various exhibitions in Paris and in the provinces.

Consuelo Fould

Rosa Bonheur, c. 1892-1893

Oil on canvas

130.7 x 94.7 cm

Leeds Museums and Galleries

Rosa Bonheur, born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, (16 March 1822 – 25 May 1899) was a French artist, an animalière (painter of animals) and sculptor, known for her artistic realism. Bonheur was widely considered to be the most famous female painter during the nineteenth century.

Bonheur was born on 16 March 1822 in Bordeaux, Gironde, the oldest child in a family of artists. Her father was a landscape and portrait painter who encouraged his daughter's artistic talents. By the time Bonheur was in her teens, her talent for sketching live animals had manifested itself, and—rejecting training as a seamstress—she began studying animal motion and forms. 

Her sketching visits to public places that were largely the domain of men, as well as her work in the studio, prompted her by at least the early 1850s to eschew traditional female clothing for the trousers and loose blouse of a male peasant. She obtained police authorization to dress as she did (1852).

She had two female partners in her lifetime; the first, Nathalie Micas, she grew up with and then lived with for forty years and the second, Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, came into her life after the death of her first partner. More on Rosa Bonheur

Consuelo Fould

Rosa Bonheur in her studio, c. 1892-1893

From 'Le Petit Journal', 3rd June 1893

The years 1892/1893 mark a turning point. Consuelo and her sister spent several months in Rosa Bonheur's studio, the life and career of the sisters split into disjointed ways. On October 7, 1893, Consuelo Fould married the Marquis Foulques de Grasse at the town hall of Courbevoie. At the same time, she broke with her first artistic attempts influenced by her sister to develop a personal style close to the Symbolist school. His technique now borrows from Ferdinand Roybet the recipes of the master's workshop.

Consuelo Fould (French, 1862–1927)

Les salamandres

Oil on Panel

224.8 x 141 cm. (88.5 x 55.5 in.)

Private collection

Consuelo Fould

Sur les ailes du rêve/ On the wings of the dream

Oil on panel

h: 49,50 w: 61 cm

Private collection

Sur les Ailes du Reve [On the Wings of the Dream] By Consuelo Fould from Le Nu au Salon 1908. A collection of Nude works published in Paris in 1908 by Société nationale des beaux-arts (France). et Société des artistes français. Catalogs of nudes exhibited at the official Paris Salons. 

Consuelo Fould

Les Druidesses appaisant la tempête/ he Druids Calm the Storm, c. 1911)

Oil on wood panel

Roybet Fould museum

Consuelo Fould

Carriers of offerings

Exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1914

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Consuelo Fould was also an “inventor”, filing patents registered with the National Office of Intellectual Property (now INPI, Courbevoie) for the creation of articulated dolls, furniture nails and female corsets.

Consuelo Fould (1862-1927)

Living Burial

Oil on canvas

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The painter bequeaths part of her fortune and all of her real estate to the city of Courbevoie, in charge of opening a museum dedicated to her master and friend, Ferdinand Roybet. If she died on May 16, 1927 in Paris, the museum opened after the war in 1951. More on Consuelo Fould

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