E. (EUPHÉMIE) MURATON

Biography

E. (EUPHÉMIE) MURATON
1836 Beaugency (France) - 1914 France

As is often the case with women painters their work is better documented than their lives. The French Euphémie Murathon was born Euphémie Duhanot. She married a fellow artist and her teacher Alphonse Muraton. Her first exhibition at a "Salon" was in 1868 with still-lives, flowers and animals. Her style is fine and colourful. Auctionhouse "Drouot" mentioned the sale of two important works by E. Muraton in 1888 and 1890. In 1893 she exhibits at the world fair in Chicago together with 30 other female artists in de women's pavilion. We know she dies in 1914 but not where. Added below a laudatory quote from a critic in 1865 saying how fine E. Muratons work is, very energetic for a woman. Her beautiful realism in form and colour. C'est dans les légumes de E.Muraton que l’on voit se déployer une énergie rare chez une femme. Quelle exactitude dans le dessin et quelle vérité dans la couleur! On se croirait sur le carreau des halles... Le même nom de Muraton signe deux portraits au pastel d'une beauté remarquable... »

— Renée Biémont, « Les artistes orléanais au salon de 1865 », Annales religieuses & littéraires de la ville et du diocèse d’Orléans, IVe volume, n° 2, 3 juin 1865, tome.