Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century Book contents
- Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century
- Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Frontispiece
- Introduction: Hidden Legacies
- Part I Self-Presentation and Self-Promotion
- Part II Spaces of Production
- Chapter 5 Living ‘in the bosom of a numerous and worthy family’
- Chapter 6 Divine Secrets of a Printmaking Sisterhood
- Chapter 7 Yielding an Impression of Women Printmakers in Eighteenth-Century France
- Chapter 8 Laura Piranesi incise
- Chapter 9 Etchings by Ladies, ‘Not Artists’
- Part III Competing in the Market: Acumen in Business and Law
- Index
Chapter 7 - Yielding an Impression of Women Printmakers in Eighteenth-Century France
from Part II - Spaces of Production
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2024
- Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century
- Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Frontispiece
- Introduction: Hidden Legacies
- Part I Self-Presentation and Self-Promotion
- Part II Spaces of Production
- Chapter 5 Living ‘in the bosom of a numerous and worthy family’
- Chapter 6 Divine Secrets of a Printmaking Sisterhood
- Chapter 7 Yielding an Impression of Women Printmakers in Eighteenth-Century France
- Chapter 8 Laura Piranesi incise
- Chapter 9 Etchings by Ladies, ‘Not Artists’
- Part III Competing in the Market: Acumen in Business and Law
- Index
Summary
This chapter offers a reassessment of the life and work of the French professional printmaker Catherine Elisabeth Cousinet (born 1726), also known as Madame Lempereur through her marriage to fellow printmaker Louis Simon Lempereur. Over the course of three decades, Elisabeth Cousinet created a range of impressive, single-sheet engravings after landscape and genre paintings owned by important and well-appointed individuals in Paris, Europe’s cosmopolitan cultural center. Her connections to these collectors integrated her into networks in the French printmaking industry and, by extension, abroad. Despite the dearth of historical evidence, her biography provides a broad outline of, and a few tantalizing glimpses into, what the career of a successful women professional printmaker in eighteenth-century France might have looked like.
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- Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth CenturyThe Imprint of Women, c. 1700–1830, pp. 108 - 122Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024