Madeleine Carpentier (3 February 1865 – 13 September 1949) was a French painter.
She was born in Paris and became a pupil of Adrien Bonnefoy and later studied under Jules Lefebvre at the Académie Julian.Nos peintres et sculpteurs, graveurs, dessinateurs : portraits et biographies suivis d'une notice sur les Salons français depuis 1673, les Sociétés de Beaux-Arts, la Propriété artistique, etc. (1897) (p. 92) She showed works at the Paris Salon from 1885 and her work Les Chandelles was purchased by the city of Paris in 1896. A portrait she painted of her sister is in the collection of Musée des Beaux-arts de Nantes.
Her painting Les Chandelles 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 Her daughter Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier, a sculptor, made a sculpture of her for the family grave in Père-Lachaise cemetery.
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Madeleine Carpentier on artnet