Élisa Beetz-Charpentier

Élisa Beetz-Charpentier (born Jeanne Élisa Henriette Beetz;[1] 1859 in Schaerbeek, Belgium – 1949 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)[2] was a French sculptor, medallist and painter. She studied sculpture at the Brussels Academy.[3]

Signature of Elisa Beetz

Her second husband was Alexandre Charpentier and the witnesses at their wedding in 1908 were Claude Debussy and Auguste Rodin.[4]

In 1909 she won a First Prize for "a Plaquette commemorating the Centenary of the Paris Firm of Pleyel, in competition with several other medallists."[5]

According to the research of Polish heraldist Jerzy Michta published in 2017, the version of the coat of arms of Poland used since 1927, designed by artist Zygmunt Kamiński, was actually copied from a 1924 plaque by Elisa Beetz-Charpentier made in honor of Ignacy Paderewski.[6]

Sources
  • (in German) Elisa Beetz-Charpentier. In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker (AKL). Band 8, Saur, München u. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22748-5, S. 261

References
  1. Jeanne Élisa Henriette Beetz – Geni.com
  2. Elisa Beetz-Charpentier. In: Musée d’Orsay
  3. Wijnsouw, Jana (27 September 2017). National Identity and Nineteenth-Century Franco-Belgian Sculpture. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-77814-5.
  4. Jana Wijnsouw: National Identity and Nineteenth-Century Franco-Belgian Sculpture. Routledge, 2017, ISBN 1-35177-814-5, S. 393.
  5. Forrer, Leonard (1923). Biographical dictionary of medallists: coin-, gem-, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, &c., ancient and modern, with references to their works : B. C. 500-A. Baldwin. ISBN 978-0-906919-10-1.
  6. Wiktor Ferfecki: Godło Polski jest plagiatem?. Rzeczpospolita, 29 October 2018.


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