Hélène Marie Antigna

Hélène Marie Antigna (née Hélène-Marie Pettit;^[1] born at Melun), was a French painter. She was a pupil of her husband, Jean Pierre Antigna, and of Eugène Delacroix. Her best works are small genre subjects. She exhibited every year after 1861; Chercheuse de bois mort (1861) and Retour du contrebandier (1868) are mentioned.^[2] In 1877, she exhibited at the Paris Salon, On n'entre pas! and the New Cider; in 1876, an Interior at Saint Brieuc and A Stable; in 1875, Tant va la cruche à l'eau.^[3]

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: C. E. C. Waters' "Women in the Fine Arts: From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D." (1904)

1. Turner, Jane (11 February 2003). The Dictionary of Art. Oxford University Press. pp. 33–. ISBN 978-0-19-517068-9.
2. Bitard, Adolphe Louis Émile (1880). Dictionnaire de biographie contemporaine, française et étrangère ... augm. d'un supplément comprenant les additions et changements divers survenus pendant l'impression, par Ad. Bitard (Public domain ed.). L. Vanier. pp. 40–.
3. Waters, Clara Erskine Clement (1904). Women in the Fine Arts: From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. (Public domain ed.). Houghton, Mifflin. pp. 17–18.