Marie Collart
{{Short description|Belgian artist (1842–1911)}}
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| birth_place = Brussels, Belgium
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| death_place = Sardinia, Italy
| nationality = Belgian
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File:Marie Collart-Henrotin - Hofstede in Brabant - 1890 - KMSKA 1249.jpg
Marie Collart-Henrotin (5 December 1842 – 8 October 1911) was a Belgian artist who mainly painted landscapes and animals.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fIPj8NRvuNAC&pg=PA118 |title=Dictionnaire des femmes belges: XIXe et XXe siècles |pages=118–19, with errors |last=Gubin |first=Eliane |author-link1=Éliane Gubin |year=2006 |isbn=2873864346 |language=fr}}
Early life and education
Marie Collart was born in Brussels, Belgium on 5 December 1842 into a creative and forward looking bourgeois family.{{Cite web |title=Collart, Marie |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/display/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00040444 |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |language=en |doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00040444}} Growing up, she spent time with the writers Victor Hugo and Charles Baudelaire who were family friends. Her mother Isabelle Collart-Motte was very interested in culture.{{Cite web |title=Marie Henrotin Collart (Belgian, 1842–1911) La campagne en mars: sheep grazing in a pasture |url=https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5056931 |access-date=3 May 2025 |website=Christies}} Collart was primarily self-taught as an artist, but benefited from the advice of Alfred Verwee, {{Interlanguage link|Martin Léonce Chabry|fr|3=Martin Léonce Chabry|lt=Léonce Chabry}} and the art dealer and critic {{Interlanguage link|Arthur Stevens (critic)|nl|3=Arthur Stevens|lt=Arthur Stevens}}. Collart enjoyed exploring the countryside, particularly around Tervueren where her family spent time in the summer. It was here that she discovered painting en plein-air, and met the painters of the École de Tervueren.
Career
Collart became a founding member of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts in 1868. In 1870, she won a gold medal at the Salon des artistes français. She became the first women to be named a Chevalier in the Belgian Order of Leopold in 1880.{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.be/books/edition/Moniteur_belge/itwYZ1ZxMDcC?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=arr%C3%AAt%C3%A9+royal+beaux-arts+officier+ordre+l%C3%A9opold+%221881%22&pg=PA1092&printsec=frontcover |title=Moniteur belge: journal officiel. 1881,4/6 |date=1881 |language=fr}}
She won gold medals at exhibitions in Ghent (1881), in Paris and in Brussels (1897).
Collart exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.{{cite web |last1=Nichols |first1=K. L. |title=Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893| url=http://arcadiasystems.org/academia/cassatt17a.html#collart|accessdate=24 July 2018}}
Personal life
In 1871, Collart married Edmond Maximilien Clément Henrotin, an artillery captain and they had several children. This did not prevent Collart's continuing artistic career. Her husband died in 1894.
Collart died at {{Interlanguage link|Nebida|it}} in Sardinia at the age of 68.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/mariecollart184200coll |title=Marie Collart, 1842–1911 : sa vie, son oeuvre |year=1900 |publisher=J.-E. Goossens |language=fr}}
Gallery
Her work is included in the collections of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp and Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.{{cite web |url=http://balat.kikirpa.be/peintres/Detail_notice.php?id=940 |title=Collart, Marie |work=Dictionnaire des peintres belges |language=fr}}
Marie Collart Henrotin La Campagne en Mars.jpg|La Campagne en Mars
Marie Collart Le verger.jpg|Le verger
Marie Collart-Henrotin - La campagne en mars.jpg|La campagne en mars
Marie Collart-Henrotin Ostende.jpg|Ostende
Marie Collart; temps gris.jpg|Temps gris
References
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Category:19th-century Belgian women artists
Category:20th-century Belgian women artists
Category:Artists from Brussels