Lucie-Charlotte Attinger (1 March 1859 – 10 June 1928)[1] was a Swiss painter and illustrator.
Lucie Attinger was born on 1 March 1859 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, one of eight children of James Attinger (1818-1885), son of the founder of the Attinger publishing house.[2] In Neuchâtel she studied art under Georges Grisel and Auguste Bachelin, then attended the Académie Julian in Paris.[3]
At the Paris Salon of 1889, she exhibited her painting Mon Atelier ("My Studio"), which depicts a life class at the Académie Julian.[3] It is one of only two known paintings (the other being Marie Bashkertseff’s In the Studio) to depicts such a class at the Académie. Mon Atelier includes a self-portrait of Attinger sketching the viewer of the painting.[4]
In 1893, Attinger married Henri Busquet de Caument (1859-1937), a member of a French aristocratic family whom she met at a showing of her work. They had two daughters.[2]
Attinger illustrated a number of prints for Imagerie Quantin, in the style of Épinal prints.[5] In the 1890s she was an illustrator for a number of French magazines: La France illustrée, Le J.Amusant (under the name Nell), L'Éclipseand La Gandriole (both under the name Jattin).She also illustrated a number of books: Chansons des nos Grand'mères (1889) by Alfred Godet, Quatre petites filles heureuses (1892) by Lucie Achard, as well as Contes choisis (1893) and Alte Volks- und Kinderlieder (1910) by Christoph von Schmid.[1]
