MADELEINE SMITH-CHAMPION (FRANCE/ 1864-1940) Portrait... Lot 74

MADELEINE SMITH-CHAMPION (FRANCE/ 1864-1940) Portrait of an elegant woman Oil on canvas H. 73 cm x L. 54 cm. Accents along the edges Born into an upper-middle-class family of English origin who had settled in Paris at the end of the 18th century, Madeleine Smith was a pupil of Jean-Jacques Henner in 1887, and exhibited regularly at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français from 1889 until her death. Wife of the historian Pierre Champion (1880-1942), Madeleine Smith was particularly connected to the literary milieu of her time through her uncle, the collector Auguste Lesouëf, and her father-in-law, the bookseller Honoré Champion.