Jacqueline Comerre-Paton, French painter and sculptor (d. 1955)
Jacqueline Comerre, née Paton (1 May 1859 – 1955) was a French painter and sculptor, and the wife of the painter Léon-François Comerre (1850-1916).Comerre-Paton was born in Paris. Her mother was Émilie-Thérèse Paton (1820 - 1887), known by the pen of Jacques Rozier, a French novelist and playwright. Her father was economist Jules Paton, financial columnist at the Journal des debates.Jacqueline studied at the École des Beaux-arts under Alexandre Cabanel. She was friends with portrait painter Fanny Caillé who reproduced one of her most famous paintings, At the spring .
She received an honorable mention in 1881 and a medal at the Versailles exhibition.
Her painting Mistletoe was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.Comerre-Paton died in Paris.
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