Aimée Eugénie Delville-Cordier

Aimée Eugénie Delville-Cordier (1822–1899) was a French painter specialising in portrait miniatures and also known to produce miniature copies of the Old Masters.

Life

Delville-Cordier was born on 10 April 1822 to Marie Madeleine Delville. Independently wealthy, she was the adoptive daughter of the physician and botanist François-Simon Cordier. Her situation allowed her to pursue a professional career in art, although no catalogue records document her formal artistic education.

Delville-Cordier spent her career resident in the 6th arrondissement of Paris near the Seine. In the late 1850s, she moved from her father's home on rue de Saint-Germain to a Restauration-era apartment building overlooking Notre-Dame where she remained for the rest of her life. The address is associated with a number of other artists including Henri Matisse.

Delville-Cordier was a member of Taylor's Société des artistes peintres, the Société des artistes français, and the Société des Beaux-Arts. General Joseph Hédouville de Mirecourt, and General Baron .

In addition to portraiture, Delville-Cordier painted still lifes, including works titled Still Life with Cabbage / Nature morte au chou and Still Life with Cheese / Nature morte au fromage (both 1868). alt=Painting of a woman wearing a yellow headscarf and beaded floral top. Watercolor portrait of a Moroccan woman wearing a headdress and floral dress. Delville-Cordier also contributed to her father François‑Simon Cordier's work on mycology, Les Champignons de la France (The Mushrooms of France). The book, which provides detailed descriptions of edible, poisonous, and “suspect” mushrooms as well as their uses in medicine, the arts, and domestic economy, was illustrated with sixty chromolithographs drawn from nature. alt=Painting of a man in French military attire and a white wig standing and looking to his right. A list of works she exhibited at the Salon demonstrates her focus on miniature painting.

Portrait, miniature (1869) Miniature, after a fresco by Raphael at the Vatican (1869) Two portraits, miniatures (1870) Victoria, miniature (1872) Pasquia, miniature (1872) Portrait, miniature (1873) Giovanina, miniature (1873) Portrait, miniature (1874) Lucia, miniature (1874) Joueuse de mandoline, miniature (1876) Jeune Moresque d'Alger, miniature (1876) Femme juive d'Alger, miniature (1877) Portrait, miniature (1877) Portraits miniatures (1878) Portrait, miniature — Exposition Universelle, 1878 Portrait, miniature (1879) Zorah, miniature (1880) Three portraits, miniatures (1880) Six portraits, miniatures (1881)