Pauline Couriard

Pauline Couriard (born Petrovna Vokhina; 1848 – 1898 ) was a Russian painter, an honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Arts. She is best known for founding and chairing the First Ladies Art Circle in Saint Petersburg. She exhibited her artworks throughout Europe. She was educated under the guidance of a popular artist Lev Lagorio. Several years preceding her husband's death Couriard was living in Geneve. She chaired the First Ladies Art Circle for more than ten years. In 1892, on the occasion of tenth anniversary of the First Ladies Art Circle Couriard received a series of drawings as a gift from the members of the Circle. Geneve museum bequested these drawings in 1899. The drawings donated by Pauline Couriard were featured in the exhibition Russian painters and travelers of 19th century at the Museum of Art and History in Geneva in 2008–2009.

Pauline Couriard died in 1898, aged 49 or 50, in Saint Petersburg.

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