Elisa-Honorine Champin

Elisa-Honorine Champin (born c. 1807, Paris and died 1871, Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine) [1]was a French watercolourist and lithographer who specialised in painting flowers, fruit and vegetables. She studied under Mlle. Adèle Riché and exhibited at the Salon under her maiden name, Pitet, from 1833 to 1836.[2] 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.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Family tree of Elisa-Honorine CHAMPIN". Geneanet. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
  2. ^ Spies-Gans, Paris Amanda (2018). "The Arts Are All Her Own": How Women Artists Navigated the Revolutionary Era in Britain and France, ca. 1760-1830. Princeton USA: Princeton University, Department of History Doctoral Dissertation. pp. Footnote 99 p. 121, 654.
  3. ^ "1853 Elisa Champin Botanical Lithograph Vilmorin Collection Mahogany Frame RARE | #475915177".
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