THE ANDALUSIAN WOMAN PAINTER MADAME ANSELMA IN FRANCE: A NEW CONTRIBUTION TO THE CATALOGUE OF HER WORK

Authors

  • Magdalena Illán-Martín University of Seville. Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12795/LA.2015.i27.43

Keywords:

Madame Anselma, Andalusian painting, Nineteenth Century, Archives Nationales Paris, French museums

Abstract

This article presents an unknown work by the woman painter Alejandrina Gessler, who signed her paintings with the pseudonym Madame Anselma. The painting is a copy of Sir Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northuberland, with his first wife and daughter after Van Dyck. It was hired in 1873 by the french Ministère de l’Instruction Publique, des Cultes et des Beaux Arts for the Musée des Copies de Paris and now, it is kept at the Musée de Gap (Hautes-Alpes). Behind it presents an unpublished information about Madame Anselma’s career, that it is kept in the Archives Nationales, in Paris.

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Published

2015-10-20

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