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Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet

French artist (died 1832)

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Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet (née Gabiou; born 23 January 1767, died 18 April 1832) was a French painter and the wife of the sculptor Antoine Denis Chaudet, who had also been her teacher.

Her father, Louis Gabiou, was a wig maker. After the death of her first husband in 1810, she married, secondly, in 1812, to Pierre-Arsène Denis Husson, a civil servant. Her painting Portrait of Madame Villot, née Barbier, was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World. She continued to exhibit at the Salon until 1817. She died of cholera.

Chaudet was the sister-in-law of painter Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou; she was also a first cousin of Gabiou and her sisters, Marie-Denise Villers and Marie-Victoire Lemoine.

Geneviève Lacambre, "Jeanne-Élisabeth Chaudet", in : Pierre Rosenberg et al. (Ed.), De David à Delacroix. La Peinture française de 1774 à 1830, (exhibition catalog), Paris, Grand Palais, 1974, pp. 348–349

Charlotte Foucher, ", "Jeanne-Elisabeth Gabiou", In: Dictionnaire des femmes de l'Ancien Régime, STEFAR, 2008 (Online Archived 2022-10-31 at the Wayback Machine)

Media related to Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet at Wikimedia Commons

Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet profile, artnet.com; accessed 18 March 2015.

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