Jeanne Amen

Jeanne Amen (1863 – April 9, 1923) was a French painter.

Biography

She was born Jeanne-Marie-Joséphine Moreau in Belleville-sur-Saône. She was a student of Antoine Grivolas of Avignon.

Amen was an inspector in the drawing schools of Paris, and the director of the journal Art et la Femme. Around 1896 she published a 150-page book of her views on art, titled l'art au point de vue feminin.

She was buried in cimetière des Batignolles April 11, 1923.

Collections

musée des beaux-arts, Lyon, Allée fleurie ou Églantiers en fleurs

Musée des Ursulines, Mâcon, Les lys et la mer, Salon of 1900

Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen, Rouen, Fleurs

Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris

Musée Paul-Dini, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Sur la terrasse, 1892. Huile sur toile

References

1863 births

1923 deaths

People from Belleville-en-Beaujolais

Artists from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

19th-century French women artists

19th-century French painters

20th-century French women artists

20th-century French painters