Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet (née Gabiou; born 23 January 1767, died 18 April 1832) was a French painter and the wife of the sculptor Antoine Denis Chaudet, who had also been her teacher.
Her father, Louis Gabiou, was a wig maker. After the death of her first husband in 1810, she married, secondly, in 1812, to Pierre-Arsène Denis Husson, a civil servant. Her painting Portrait of Madame Villot, née Barbier, was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.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 She continued to exhibit at the Salon until 1817. She died of cholera.
Chaudet was the sister-in-law of painter Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou;Profile of Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou at the Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800. she was also a first cousin of Gabiou and her sisters, Marie-Denise Villers and Marie-Victoire Lemoine.
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Further reading Geneviève Lacambre, "Jeanne-Élisabeth Chaudet", in : Pierre Rosenberg et al. (Ed.), De David à Delacroix. La Peinture française de 1774 à 1830, (exhibition catalog), Paris, Grand Palais, 1974, pp. 348–349 Charlotte Foucher, ", "Jeanne-Elisabeth Gabiou", In: Dictionnaire des femmes de l'Ancien Régime, STEFAR, 2008 (Online )
External links
Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet profile, artnet.com; accessed 18 March 2015.