Antoinette Cécile Hortense, Mme Haudebourt Lescot
Place Born
ParisPlace Died
ParisBio
Antoinette Haudebourt-Lescot was one of the most celebrated of a generation of women artists who practiced genre painting in the early nineteenth century. She appears as the only woman in François-Joseph Heim’s 1827 portrait of artists rewarded by Charles X. Many of her genre scenes illustrate the customs of Italy where she traveled when her teacher, Lethiére, was named director of the French Academy in Rome. Others, such as this highly finished watercolor, are historical genre pictures that would have appealed particularly to her aristocratic patrons such as the Duchess of Berry. She was also an accomplished portrait painter as her self-portrait in the Louvre demonstrates. In 1820 Lescot married the architect Haudebourt and continued to exhibit at the Salon to which she submitted more than 110 paintings between the years 1810 and 1840.