{{Short description|French artist (1767–1849)}} {{Infobox artist | name = Constance Marie Charpentier | image = Constance Marie Charpentier.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Self portrait | birth_name = Constance-Marie Blondelu<ref name="ConstanceCharpentier"/> | birth_date = {{birth date|1767|4|4|df=y}} | birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = {{death date and age|1849|8|3|1767|4|4|df=y}} | death_place = Paris, France | field = Painting | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = | awards = }}
'''Constance Marie Charpentier''' (born 4 April 1767 Paris, – 3 August 1849 Paris)<ref name="ConstanceCharpentier">{{cite web|last1=Dacre-Wright|first1=Gildas|title=Constance Charpentier: Painter (1767 - 1849)|url=http://www.constance-charpentier.fr/|website=Constance Charpentier|accessdate=16 October 2017|archive-date=24 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150224022230/http://www.constance-charpentier.fr/|url-status=dead}}</ref> was a French painter. She specialized in genre scenes and portraits, mainly of children and women. She was also known as Constance Marie Blondelu.
==Life and career== Records of Charpentier's training are unclear, but she might have studied with numerous artists. She is typically believed to have studied with the acclaimed French painter Jacques-Louis David, but may also have been a pupil of François Gérard, Pierre Bouillon, Louis Lafitte and either Johann Georg Wille or his son, Pierre-Alexandre Wille.<ref name= Blog>{{cite web|title=Royalists to Romantics: Spotlight on Constance Marie Charpentier|url=http://womeninthearts.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/royalists-to-romantics-spotlight-on-constance-marie-charpentier/|work=Broad Strokes|date=30 May 2012 |publisher=National Museum of Women in the Arts|accessdate=January 25, 2013}}</ref>
[[File:Charpentier, Constance Marie - Melancholy - 1801.jpg|thumb|250px|Constance Marie Charpentier, ''Melancholy'', 1801, oil on canvas, 130 x 165 cm. Musée de Picardie, Amiens, France]] In 1788 she received a 'Prix d'Encouragement.' From 1795 to 1819 she exhibited approximately thirty paintings at various Salons, winning a gold medal in 1814 at the Paris Salon and a silver medal in 1821 at the Salon at Douai.<ref name=Blog /><ref name= Art>{{cite book |last= |first= |editor=Oxford University Press |title= Art Encyclopedia The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art |year= 2002 |publisher= Art Encyclopedia. The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art |location= |id= }}</ref>
It is believed that some of Charpentier's works were incorrectly attributed to her teacher, David.<ref>{{cite book|last=Strieter|first=Terry W.|title=Nineteenth-century European Art: A Topical Dictionary|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing|location=Westport, CT|page=41}}</ref> The well-known painting ''Young Woman Drawing'' (1801) was incorrectly attributed first to David, then to Charpentier, and is now believed to be the work of Marie-Denise Villers.<ref>{{cite web|title=Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (died 1868)|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/110002356|work=The Metropolitan Museum of Art|accessdate=April 8, 2013}}</ref> Based on surviving, positively identified works by Charpentier, she is considered one of the finest portrait painters of her era.<ref name=Art/>
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