Fanny Rozet

Fanny Rozet
Born
Stéphanie Amélie Mismaque

13 June 1881
Paris, Île-de-France, France
Died9 March 1958(1958-03-09) (aged 76)
Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France
Burial placePère-Lachaise Cemetery
Other namesStéphanie Amélie Rozet,[1] Fanny Rozat, Stéphanie Amélie Fanny Rozet, Amélie Philippe-Bautte
Alma materBeaux-Arts de Paris
Occupation(s)Sculptor, designer
SpouseAlbert Philippe
FatherRené Rozet

Fanny Rozet (1881–1958; née Stéphanie Amélie Mismaque), was a French sculptor.[2] She was known for her Art Deco sculptures, decorative objects, and lamps. She was the first female student to attend L’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA).[3]

Biography

Image of her grave at Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris
Image of her grave at Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris

She was born on 13 June 1881, in Paris, Île-de-France, France.[2] Her father was the sculptor René Rozet, who married her mother in 1895, fourteen years after her birth.

Rozet was a member of the Union of Women Painters and Sculptors (UFPS; French: Union des femmes peintres et sculpteurs).[3] The UFPS demanded L’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA; also known simply as Beaux-Arts de Paris) to allow Rozet to attend, because during this time women were not allowed entrance to the school.[3] Rozet was the first female student to attend ENSBA in 1896, and there she studied under Laurent Marqueste.[3]

Starting in 1904, she began exhibiting at Salon des Artistes Français.[3] In 1905, she was accepted on a trial basis for the Prix de Rome (an organization which also did not have many female participants), however she did not go beyond the "preparatory examination".[4]

Rozet created Art Deco statuettes, decorative objects, and lamps.[3] Some of her artwork was manufactured by art publishers, including Arthur Goldscheider [de], Susse Frères, Eyffinger and Marquet, Edmond Etling, and Les Neveux de Jules Lehmann [de].[3]

She died on 9 March 1958, in Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France.[citation needed]

The north wing in "La Casa Grande" at Hearst Castle contained on display a Rozet silvered bronze lamp, Cupid Jailed (c. 1920).[5][6]

References

  1. ^ Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture et gravure des artistes vivants (in French). Dubray. 1921. p. 263.
  2. ^ a b "Rozet, Fanny". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online. 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00157339. ISBN 978-0-19-989991-3. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Shayo, Alberto (25 January 2016). Statuettes art deco period. Antique Collectors Club. ACC Art Books. pp. 31, 214. ISBN 978-1-85149-824-6. Retrieved 2022-09-27 – via Issuu. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  4. ^ Murray, Janet Horowitz; Stark, Myra (2017-01-12). The Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial Questions: 1907-1908. Routledge. p. 646. ISBN 978-1-315-39504-3.
  5. ^ Kastner, Victoria (2022-02-15). Julia Morgan: An Intimate Portrait of the Trailblazing Architect. Chronicle Books. p. 229. ISBN 978-1-7972-0581-6.
  6. ^ Berman, Harold (1976). Bronzes; Sculptors & Founders, 1800-1930. Abage. p. 442.