Sophie Fremiet (later Rude)

Sophie Fremiet (later Rude)

French Artist · 1797–1867

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Hailing from an artistic family, Sophie Fremiet began her training in Dijon at a young age. Her maternal grandfather, Louis-Gabriel Monnier, was the first director of the Dijon Museum and a revered engraver in the city, a talent he passed on to Fremiet’s mother. Her father, Louis Fremiet, had a commercial background—he was a merchant in second-hand clothes (*marchand fripier*) who later became a t