Madeleine Carpentier
1865–1949 (age 84)
Biography
Madeleine Carpentier, born in 1865, trained with the women artists of her era and exhibited steadily at the Paris Salon, where she earned praise for portraits suffused with gentle light.
Her work celebrated women’s presence in domestic and public spheres, and the calm dignity of her brushstrokes sustains her memory at Père Lachaise.