French, 1868-1946

Paule Gobillard grew up in a climate of artistic privilege in the heart of the Impressionist movement. She was the niece of Berthe Morisot, one of the most important woman impressionist artists, and Eugéne Manet, the brother of Edouard Manet. Following the death of her parents, Paule and her sister Jeannie lived with her aunt, and became one her favorite models, and later became her student. Renoir would often take the two sisters to work in the South of France and in Brittany.
Gobillard’s soft and brilliant palette and feathery delicate technique reveal the influence of her two early Impressionist mentors, Berthe Morisot and Renoir. Her pastels have a tenderness which is anchored by very confident graphism, her bouquets of flowers and still lives, and her images of children are impressionist in style with a sensibility close to that of her aunt, Berthe Morisot.

She exhibited her work at the Salon des Indépendants, at the Salon D’Automne from 1904, and then at the Salon des Tuileries from 1926.