Biografie von Katharine Augusta CARL (1854-1938)

Birth place: New Orleans, LA

Death place: New York, NY

Addresses: New Orleans; NYC; Paris, France; China

Profession: Painter, lecturer, writer

Studied: Académie Julian, Paris, with Jean-Paul Laurens and William A. Bouguereau; also with Gustave Courtois, T. Robert-Fleury, Giacommotti, and H. Leroux in Paris

Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1886-90 (hon. mention, 1890), 1902; SNBA, 1895-99; Tennessee Cent. Expo., Nashville, 1897; AIC, 1897-99; Int. Expo, Paris, 1900 (hon. mention); PAFA, 1903; Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis, MO, 1904; London, England; Berlin, Germany. Awards: Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, 1896; Order of the Double Dragon and Order of the Manchu Flaming Pearl, China.

Member: Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Nat. Soc. French Artists; Int. Soc. of Women Painters, London.

Work: NMAA, Wash., DC

Comments: She left New Orleans permanently c.1859 to live in NYC, Paris and China. She was noted for her portrait of the Empress Dowager Tze Hsi of China and was the author and illustrator of With the Empress Dowager of China", 1905.

Sources: WW38; Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, 67; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 327; Falk, Exhibition Record Series