Marie Adrien Lavieille

Who was Marie Adrien Lavieille?

Marie Adrien Lavieille, born Marie Petit, was a French painter. She was a pupil of her father, Jean-Jacques Petit, and of Joseph Blanc.

She exposed as soon as 1876, and then very regularly, at the Salon, which became the Salon des Artistes Français in 1881, and since 1886 to 1906, at the art exhibitions of the Union des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs.

Marie Adrien Lavieille was an intimist painter with a particular gift for portraits and still lifes. However, her work is very diversified, and reflects many of the themes of the painting, and of the society of her time. Beside portraits – especially of : her father, Jean-Jacques Petit, decorator painter; the painter Adrien Lavieille she married in 1878; their daughter, Andrée Lavieille, who also became painter; or a self-portrait she made in 1870, when she was 18 years old – and still lifes, she realized interiors, some landscapes, scenes of quotidian life, particularly with children : L'anniversaire, Sortie de classe, Maternité, Prière pour l'absent…

Since 1879, Marie Adrien Lavieille taught drawing in schools of Paris.