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Joséphine Houssay

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Joséphine Houssay
Born1840 (1840)
Died1914 (aged 73–74)
NationalityFrench
Known forPainting
Signature

Joséphine Houssay (or, by mistake Joséphine Houssaye; 1840 – 1914) was a French painter.

The Lesson

She was a pupil of Tony Robert-Fleury at the Académie Julian.[1] Houssaye exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[2]

Her painting The Lesson, was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Joséphine Houssaye 1840 - ? Peintre aquarelliste française
  2. ^ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  3. ^ Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905
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