Henriette L'Hardy

Henriette L'Hardy (1766–1808) was a Swiss painter.

L'Hardy was the daughter of an officer in the French military, and was friends with Benjamin Constant. She was a disciple of Isabelle de Charrière, with whom she exchanged over 160 letters beginning in 1791, and whose papers she inherited. She was a companion of Sophie von Dönhoff before marrying the historian Louis-Henri-Eusèbe Gaullieur.[1][2][3] The couple had a son, Eusèbe-Henri, later a historian as well, but she died soon after his birth.[4] A self-portrait, described in various sources as a pastel or as a painting, still exists in a private collection.[1]

References
  1. Profile in the Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800.
  2. Jacqueline Letzter (1998). Intellectual Tacking: Questions of Education in the Works of Isabelle de Charrière. Rodopi. pp. 61–. ISBN 90-420-0290-5.
  3. Jelka Samsom (2005). Individuation and Attachment in the Works of Isabelle de Charrière: Jelka Samsom. Peter Lang. pp. 32–. ISBN 978-3-03910-187-0.
  4. Maggetti, Daniel. "Gaullieur, Eusèbe-Henri". HLS-DHS-DSS.CH. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
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