Jeanne Lombard

Charcoal self-portrait

Jeanne Lombard (22 August 1865 – 6 December 1945) was a Swiss painter and drawer, best remembered for her history paintings on Protestantism, still lifes and portrait paintings about women's suffrage. Her works are now in the collection of the Musée d'art et d'histoire de Neuchâtel.[1][2][3][4][5]

Biography

Lombard was born on 22 August 1865 in Le Grand-Saconnex, canton of Geneva, Switzerland.[6] She spent her childhood in France before returning to her native country in 1879, when her father was appointed pastor in Auvernier.[6] Encouraged by him, Lombard began studying drawing at the age of fourteen with the sculptor and medalist Fritz-Ulysse Landry, then studied painting under Gustave Jeanneret.[6] From 1888 onwards, she exhibited regularly at the Société des Amis des Arts in Neuchâtel.[6] Lombard continued her training in the 1890s in the studio of portrait painter Jean-Louis Loubet in Lyon, where she received an honorable mention at the city's Salon, and then pursued further studies in Paris with the painters Rodolphe Julian and Marie Krug.[6]

A devout Protestant, Lombard was involved in several social causes, including the League of Swiss Abstinent Women.[6] Beginning in 1907, she produced a series of paintings depicting the Huguenot experience in France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which solidified her reputation.[6] Faced with the exclusion of women from the Swiss Society of Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Lombard co-founded the Neuchâtel section of the Swiss Society of Women Painters and Sculptors in 1908.[6] She served as its secretary from 1909 to 1933 and became an honorary member in 1941.[6] Lombard died on 6 December 1945 in Corcelles, canton of Neuchâtel, aged 80.[6]

Selected works

  • Huguenot prisoners at the Tour de Constance, 1907
    Huguenot prisoners at the Tour de Constance, 1907
  • Cladestine baptism, 1925
    Cladestine baptism, 1925
  • Assembly in the desert, 1934
    Assembly in the desert, 1934
  • Prisoners reading the Bible at the Tour de Constante, 1938
    Prisoners reading the Bible at the Tour de Constante, 1938
  • Still life with jug and vegetables
    Still life with jug and vegetables

References

  1. ^ Dollée, Joël (2008). Jeanne Lombard (1865–1945) et les artistes neuchâteloises 1908–2008 (in French). Hauterive.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ Dollée, Joël (1987). Essai d'inventaire de l'œuvre peint de Jeanne Lombard (1865–1945) (in French). Montpellier: Université Paul-Valéry.
  3. ^ Quellet-Soguel, Nicole (2005). Schlup, Michel (ed.). "Jeanne Lombard artiste (1865–1945)". Biographies neuchâteloises: 1900–1950 (in French). 4. Hauterive: 191–196.
  4. ^ Cardoso, Ana (November 1, 2008). "L'authenticité de Jeanne Lombard". ArcInfo (in French). Retrieved 25 May 2022.
  5. ^ Laurence, C. (November 10, 2008). "Jeanne Lombard, la revenante qui enchante". Le Temps (in French).
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Léa Béguin (2025). "Jeanne Lombard". SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland.
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