Marthe Élisabeth Barbaud-Koch

(1862-1928)

 

Marthe Élisabeth Barbaud-Koch was born in Lyons in 1862. She studied painting with Sophie Olivier, Elie Laurent (portrait artist), as well as with William-Adolphe Bouguereau and the fabric designer Loubet.  It was chiefly from Jules Ferdinand Médard (1855-1925) that she learned the techniques of floral painting.

 

She painted in Lyons, as well as in Paris, where she was a frequent exhibitor at the Salon from 1887 onward. Eventually she settled in Toulon, where she died in 1928.

 

Bibliography:

French Flower Painters of the 19th Century

Hardouin-Fuger & Grafe, Wilson, London 1990

 

Dictionaire des Petits Maitres de la Peinture, 1820-1920

Schurr & Cabanne, Le Editions de l’Amateur, Paris 1996

 

Benezit. Dictionary of Artists, Vol. 1 (Grund, 2006)