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Sophie Frémiet

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On 25 July 1821, Sophie married her father's former protégé François Rude. The couple would have only one child, Amédée, who died young in 1830 at the age of eight. In Brussels Sophie was a successful artist, receiving many commissions, including several for the former royal palace at
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in style, largely mythological, although she produced a small number of religious paintings. Her portrayal of the nymph
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as mother in 1823 was awarded a gold medal at a show in 1824. It was sold at Sotheby's for USD 685,500 in 2022.
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Sophie Rude peintre et femme de sculpteur, une vie d'artiste au XIXe siècle (Dijon - Bruxelles - Paris).
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Geiger, Monique, "Frémiet, Sophie" in E. Gubin, C. Jacques, V. Piette & J. Puissant (eds),
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Portrait of Victorine Frémiet, painted by her sister Sophie Frémiet in Brussels, 1818
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in 1815, the Frémiet family, along with many other Bonapartists, left France for
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The death of Cenchirias, son of Neptune and the nymph Peirene
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The death of Cenchirias, son of Neptune and the nymph Peirene
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In 1826, the Rude family returned to France, settling in
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Sophie Frémiet served as the model for the figure of
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née
painter
Dijon
Bonapartist
Anatole Devosge
Jacques-Louis David
François Rude
Bourbon Restoration
Brussels
Belgium
United Kingdom of the Netherlands
Antwerp
Ghent
Sophie Frémiet, portrait of her husband, François Rude.
François Rude
Sophie Frémiet served as the model for the figure of The Genius of War, in the Departure of the Volunteers created by her husband, François Rude, on the Arc de Triomphe.
François Rude
Arc de Triomphe
Tervuren
neoclassicist
Pirene
The death of Cenchirias, son of Neptune and the nymph Peirene, 1821–23
Paris
Arc de Triomphe
Adonis with a greyhound
Adonis
Ariadne abandoned on the island of Naxos, 1826
Ariadne
Naxos

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