Marie Ernestine Lavieille

Marie Ernestine Lavieille (or Marie Lavieille) (October 11, 1852 in Barbizon – November 12, 1937 in Le Mans) was a French painter.

Biography

As her father, Eugène Lavieille, whose she was a pupil, she has been a landscape artist. She painted in the forest of Fontainebleau and around it, on the Marne river banks, and in the Perche area of Normandy.

She exhibited from 1877 to 1890 at the Salon, which became the Salon des Artistes Français, and from 1882 to 1913 at the art exhibitions of the Union des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs.

She married in 1878 the French sculptor Charles Georges Ferville-Suan.

Bibliography

• Émile Bellier de la Chavignerie and Louis Auvray. Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'École française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours. Renouard, Paris, 1882-1887. Reprint : Garland Publishing Inc., New York & London, 1979.
• Pierre Sanchez. Dictionnaire de l'Union des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs (1882-1965). L'Echelle de Jacob, 2010.