Blanche Hennebutte-Feillet

Blanche Hennebutte-Feillet (1815–1886) was a French lithographer and painter. She is remembered in particular for the lithographs she created for albums illustrating Bayonne and the Basque Country. As a painter, she exhibited in the Paris salon from 1841.

Biography Born in Paris on 5 November 1815, Blanche Feillet was the daughter of the painter and lithographer Pierre Jacques Feillet (1794–1855) and Hélène Pernotin. On 24 January 1844, she married Charles Henry Firmin Hennebutte, a publisher, with whom she had two children: Henri Joseph Ernest (1845) and Pierre Louis Gaston (1856).

In 1857, in her father's footsteps, see was appointed head of the Bayonne Art School (Ecole de Dessin et de Peinture de Bayonne). She also taught ornamental drawing at Bayonne's Association Philomatique.

Blanche Hennebutte-Feillet died on 15 September 1886 in the family home in Biarritz.

In November 2015, the work of Hélène and Blache Feillet was exhibited at the Basque Museum in Bayonne.