About Cécile Douard
Lived 1866 – 1941 (aged 74). Cécile Douard was a Belgian painter, printmaker, sculptor, graphic artist and musician.
Cécile Douard (1866-1941) was a Belgian artist.
Biography Douard was born Cécile Leseine on 29 December 1866 in Rouen, France. She studied under . Douard often painted the people and landscape of the coalmining town Borinage.
At the age of 33 Douard lost her sight. No longer able to paint, she became a sculptor. She also played the piano and violin. She wrote two books; "Impressions of a Second Life" in 1923, and "Paysages indistincts" in 1929.
Douard died on 14 January 1941
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Who was Cécile Douard?
Belgian painter and sculptor (1866-1941)
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Cécile Douard was born on 29 December 1866 in Rouen.
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Cécile Douard died on 14 January 1941 in Brussels metropolitan area.
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Cécile Douard was a painter, printmaker, sculptor, graphic artist and musician.
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Cécile Douard was Belgian.
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