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Zoé Goyet
Zoé Goyet
Born	Jeanne-Zoé Grozier de Boulieu
Died	8 July 1869; Chateau de Greffière (Saône-et Loire)
Spouse	Eugène Goyet

Zoé Goyet (died 8 July 1869) was a French portrait painter, pastel artist, and teacher. Her works were exhibited in the Paris Salon from 1834 to 1841. She was the wife of painter Eugène Goyet and daughter-in-law of painter Jean-Baptiste Goyet.

Career

Zoé Goyet was a great-granddaughter of the influential Parisian art dealer and engraver Jean Mariette.^[3]^[4] Her marriage to Eugène Goyet brought her into the household and atelier he shared with his father, Jean-Baptiste Goyet, at 3 Rue de l'Abbaye in Paris. All three were artists, exhibiting their works at the prestigious annual Paris Salon and exhibitions in other cities in France. Zoé exhibited 14 portraits at the Salon from 1834 to 1839 and in 1841; she received a medal in 1837.^[5]^[6]

In 1837, after the Goyets moved to 25 Rue de la Chausée-D'Antin, they set up their studios next door at number 27, where Eugène and Zoé also taught drawing and painting to female students.^[7] At least one graduate of her atelier exhibited at the Paris Salon, in 1864.^[8]

In 1838 she painted a portrait of the popular novelist Michel Masson that was widely reproduced in his books.^[9]^[10]

Jules Janin praised her pastel portraits at the Salon of 1839: "In terms of energetic portraits, notice, I beg you, those of Mme. Zoé Goyet; one would say she was a pupil of M. Ingres, there is so much in her drawing. Mme. Zoé Goyet brings the greatest care and the most exacting discernment to this work."^[11]

Eugène Goyet died in 1857. In 1859, Zoé Goyet completed her husband's final commission—of a painting of Christ at Calvary, for La chapelle Notre-Dame du Calvaire, Garbriac, Averyon, France—marking the end of over three decades in which the three Goyets played a prominent role in the world of French art.^[12] Zoé died in 1869.

Gallery

Undated and untitled portrait, pastel, private collection^[13]
Zoé Goyet, portrait of a seated man, pastel, private collection
Portrait of a seated woman, pastel private collection^[13]
Portrait of François Christophe de Kellermann, Musée de l'Armée, Paris
Christ at Calvary, La chapelle Notre-Dame du Calvaire, Gabriac, Aveyron, France (1859)
La chapelle Notre-Dame du Calvaire, Gabriac, Averyon, France

References

^ Bénézit, Emmanuel. "Goyet (Mme Jeanne Zoé)" entry in Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs & graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays, 1924, vol. 2, p. 468.
^ Bellier de La Chavignerie, Émile; Auvray, Louis. "Goyet (Mme Jeanne Zoé)" entry in Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'École française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours: architectes, peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs et lithographes, Paris: 1882-1885, vol. I, p. 684.
^ Audiffred, Hyacinthe. "Nécrologie: Eugène Goyet", Revue des Beaux-Arts, tome 8, 1857, pp. 237-8.
^ "Chronique, Documents, Faits Divers", Revue Universelle des Arts, tome 5, 1857, p. 377.
^ "Database of Salon Artists 1827-1850: Goyet, Mme Jeanne Zoé, née Groizier de Boulieu". humanities-research.exeter.ac.uk/.
^ Auvray, Louis. Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'École française, 1882-1885, p. 684.
^ Le Charivari, 24 December 1837 p. 7.
^ Veuve Victoire-Adèle Keuler, "élève de Mme. Goyet," Explication des Ouvrages de Peinture et Dessins, Sculpture, Architecture et Gravure des Artistes Vivans, aux Palais des Élysées, 1864, p. 599.
^ Coyecque, Ernest. Collection Parent de Rosan: inventaire des estampes, tome 1, p. 424.
^ Tardfieu, Ambroise. Masson entry, Dictionnaire Iconographique des Parisienes, Herment (Puy-de-Dôme): Chez l'Auteur, 1885, column 204.
^ Jules Janin. "Salon de 1939", L'Artiste, 2nd series, vol. 2, 1839, p. 343.
^ "RESSOURCES La médiathèque numérique culturelle—Goyet". patrimoines.laregion.fr/. 23 April 2020.
^ ^a ^b If this work is authentically by Goyet, it may be noted that she here signs her first name with a diaeresis (Zoë) rather than an accent aigu (Zoé), as it is uniformly found in contemporary printed sources.