Jeanne Jacquemin

Jeanne Jacquemin (Marie-Jeanne Boyer) was a French artist associated with the Symbolist movement. She was born on 13 August 1863 in Paris and died in Paris in 1938. She married Édouard Jacquemin, but later left him to live with the engraver Auguste Lauzet, a friend of Vincent Van Gogh.

Personal life She married Édouard Paul Félicien Jacquemin, a member of Paul Verlaine's circle, on December 13, 1881. Édouard ultimately abandoned her, and some time later she moved in with the engraver August-Marie Lauzet. Her work, like that of her Symbolist contemporaries, addresses mysticism, dream states, nature, and la douleur, or pain. The particular brand of isolation and otherworldliness found in her works coincides with an ambivalent figuration of gender. Her treatment of the "female androgyne" has been associated with the efforts of female Symbolist artists to explore psychic states "not confined to masculine sensibilities," but that do not necessarily put forward a counter-model of "essentialized female sensibility."

Her portrait of Saint Georges, for example, has been interpreted by some as a self-portrait, due in part to the figure's delicate facial features and long red hair.

Her works include: La Douloureuse et glorieuse couronne (The Crown of Thorns) (pastel on paper, 1892, private collection, Paris) Le Coeur d'eau (pastel on paper, 1892, Musée de Folklore at Maison Tournaisienne) Christ à la couronne d'épines (lithograph published in Le Courrier Français, Jun 23, 1895) Saint Georges (color lithograph published in L'Éstampe modern no. 11, 1898) Le Temps passe or "Rêverie" (alternately titled Daydream, Mélancolie, and Mysteriosa), a signed worm that has been included in several Symbolist exhibitions in recent decades, Paris, collection Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond. Saint Georges (pastel on paper) 1892, Paris, collection Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond.