Marguerite Jacquelin - Still Life With Dragon

Marguerite JACQUELIN Valogne, 1850 – Bordeaux, 1941 Still Life with Dragon Oil on canvas 41 x 32.5 cm (57 x 51 cm with frame) Dated and signed lower right “Jacquelin / 1882” Beautiful giltwood frame On display at the gallery Marguerite Jacquelin studied painting under Louis-Augustin Auguin and then under Léon Bonnat and Tony Robert-Fleury at the Académie Julian in Paris. She painted portraits, still lifes, especially of flowers, and some landscapes. She exhibited her works at the Bordeaux Salon in the 1870s and at the Salon des Artistes Français in the 1880s and 1890s. Marguerite Jacquelin opened a studio in 1888 on rue Bardineau in Bordeaux. In 1907, she founded the Société des Femmes Artistes (Society of Women Artists) in Bordeaux, under the patronage of the Duchess of Uzès. The society organized exhibitions until 1931. Our painting is signed and dated 1882. The subject is original, featuring a piece of goldsmithing in the shape of a dragon. The composition is rich in symbolism, from the dragon to the knife in the lower left corner, the Latin cross in the lower right corner, and the depiction of mythological scenes in the center.