A Space of Their Own

Adèle Romany

December 7, 1769 – June 6, 1846

Active in: France
Alternate names: Adèle Romanée; Citizen Adel-Romany

Biography

Adèle Romany was a painter active in France in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She is most known for her portraits of other artists, although she did produce some allegories and genre scenes. Romany studied under Jean-Baptiste Regnault and exhibited regularly at the Salon between 1793 and 1833. She died in Paris in 1846.

Selected Works

Bibliography

“Adèle Romany.” RKD. https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/67867.

Chavignerie, Émile de la. Dictionnaire general des artistes de l’école française depuis l’origine des arts du dessin jusqu’à nos jours: Architectes, peintrs, sculpteurs, graveurs et lithographes. Paris, 1882.

Checklist of painters c.1200–1994 Represented in the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London. London: Mansell, 1995.

Coman, Sonia. “A Community of Women Artists and Actresses at the End of the Ancien Régime: The Portrait of Madame Thénard mère in Hermione by Adèle Romany.” S & F Online 15 (2019): 1.

Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture et gravure exposés au salon du Louvre. Paris, 1793.

Jeannerat, Carlo. “L’auteur du portrait de Vestris II, Adèle de Romance, et son mari, le miniaturiste François-Antoine Romany.” Bulletin de la Société de l’histoire de l’art français (1923): 52–63.

Oppenheimer, Margaret A. “Women Artists in Paris, 1791–1814.” PhD Dissertation, New York University, 1996.

“Romany, Adèle.” Oxford Art Online. https://doi-org.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00155247.

Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections. Washington, DC: National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2012.

Thieme, Ulrich, and Felix Becker. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler: von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig: Seemann, 1907–50.