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Painter
Born Elisa-Honorine PITET
French watercolourist and lithographer
Born on 1807 in Paris , France
Died on September 2, 1871 in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine , France
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... Elisa-Honorine Champin (Paris - 1871 Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine) was a French watercolourist and lithographer who specialised in painting flowers, fruit and vegetables. She studied under Mlle. Riché and exhibited at the Salon under her maiden name, Pitet, from 1833 to 1836. After marrying French painter Jean-Jacques Champin (1796-1860) in 1837 she exhibited under her married name. She contributed a series of vegetable posters to Le Jardin Potager (1850-1884) - these were printed by Lemercier & Cie. for use as advertisements by the firm Vilmorin-Andrieux, a leading wholesaler of seeds.
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Gallery of vegetables Archived 2021-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
Biography from Wikipedia (see original) under licence CC BY-SA 3.0
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