A cat being fed: would seeing images of this lead to curiosity about a women’s prison in Paris or about one of the few successful female painters from late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France? It likely would if you were to come across the painting Le déjeuner du chat (ou Jeune fille donnant à boire à son chat) by Marguerite Gérard (1761-1837) and the photograph “Religieuse donnant à boire à un chat, pharmacie, prison Saint-Lazare, maison d’arrêt pour femme, 107 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis, 10ème arrondissement, Paris” by Henri Manuel (1874-1947).
Marguerite Gérard
- Blumenfeld, Carole. Marguerite Gérard 1761-1837. United States, Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2019.
- Blumenfeld, Carole, et al. Marguerite Gérard : artiste en 1789, dans l’atelier de Fragonard : [exposition] Musée Cognac-Jay, 10 septembre-6 décembre 2009. France, Paris musées, 2009.
- Doin, Jeanne. “Marguerite Gérard (1761-1837).” Gazette des beaux-arts, 4e période, VIII, 1912, pp.429-52.
- Euchner, Angelika. Wesen und Bedeutung der Genremalerei von Marguerite Gérard 1761-1837. Germany, Verlag nicht ermittelbar, 1981.
- “Gérard, Marguerite.” Dictionary of Women Artists, edited by Maja Mihajlovic and Leanda Shrimpton, 1997. → click here
- Hoisington, Rena M., and Perrin Stein. “Sous les yeux de Fragonard: The Prints of Marguerite Gérard.” Print Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 2, 2012, pp. 142-62, www.jstor.org/stable/43826209.
- Jensen, Heather Belnap. “Modern Motherhood and Female Sociability in the Art of Marguerite Gérard.” Reconciling Art and Mothering, edited by Rachel Epp Buller, Ashgate, 2012, pp.15-29. → click here
- “Marguerite Gérard.” National Museum of Women in the Arts, https://nmwa.org/art/artists/marguerite-gerard/
- “Marguerite Gérard (1761-1837).” The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, 2020, https://barber.org.uk/gerard-marguerite-1761-1837/
- Wells-Robertson, Sally. Marguerite Gérard, 1761-1837. 1978. New York University, PhD Dissertation.
La Prison Saint-Lazare
- Anonymous. The Prisoners of St. Lazare. Edited by Pauline de Grandpré. Translated by E.M. McCarthy. New York: D. Appleton, 1872. → click here
- Grandpré, Pauline de. La Prison Saint-Lazare depuis vingt ans, par Mme Pauline de Grandpré. Paris: E. Dentu, 1889. → click here
- Recueil d’actes de Saint-Lazare de Paris 1124-1254. Edité par Simone Lefèvre, sous la direction de Lucie Fossier. Aubervilliers: Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (IRHT), 2005, www.persee.fr/doc/dirht_0073-8212_2005_cat_75_1
- Rhoades, Michelle Kathleen. “No safe women”: prostitution, masculinity, and disease in France during the Great War. United States, ProQuest Information and Learning Company, 2002.
- “Saint-Lazare as a Women’s Prison: 1794-1932.” DePaul University, circa 2011, https://resources.depaul.edu/vincentian-collections/Pages/default.aspx
- Walton, William. Paris Known and Unknown. United States, G. Barrie & Son, 1898. → click here