Adèle Riché

French painter

Adèle Riché
Born	1791 Paris, France
Died	1878 Fontainebleau, France
Nationality	French

Adèle Riché (1791–1878) was a French painter.

Riché was born, and lived her life in France. A pupil of Jan Frans van Dael and Gerard van Spaendonck.,^[1] she is known for her still life paintings, including watercolors,^[2] as well as her portraits.^[1] Her techniques included botanical, entomological, and natural painting, oil, watercolor, and on vellum, and engraving, as well as hand-colouring.^[3]

Riché died in Fontainebleau, France in 1878.

Work

Riché worked primarily in watercolor and her subject of choice was often women, flowers, or fruit.^[4] Her portraits were often done in oil; the stylistic preference of the times. Whereas her fruit and still life pieces were done in watercolor.

She painted a portrait of Natalia Obrenovich, Queen of Serbia.^[5]

Gallery

Plate 30 from The North American Sylva showing Riché's painting of the Sabal palmetto, originally known as the cabbage tree (Chamærops palmetto).
Portrait of Natalia Obrenovich, Queen of Serbia, 1875-1878

References

^ ^a ^b Adèle Riché in the RKD
^ Bryan, Michael (1889). Graves, Robert Edmund; Armstrong, Walter (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical. Vol. II: L–Z. George Bell & Sons. p. 374. OCLC 2660507 – via Google Books.
^ "Last Name: Riché | Given Name: Adèle". Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators 1450–1950. Archived from the original on 31 January 2024. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
^ "Artists: Adèle Riché". Invaluable.com. Archived from the original on 5 January 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
^ "Portrait of Natalia Obrenovich, Queen of Serbia - Adele Riche". Hermitage Museum. Archived from the original on 31 January 2024. Retrieved 31 January 2024.