Georgette AGUTTE (registered AGUTTES)

1867   Louise-Georgette AGUTTES (Agutte is her artist name) was born on May 17 th in Paris , within a wealthy and cultivated family.

 

Daughter of Maria Debladis and Jean-Georges Aguttes, a painter (pupil of Barrias and Corot) who exhibited some landscapes from around Chantilly between 1862 and 1865.

Her father, Jean-Georges Aguttes, dies in an accident in Paris , on January 6 th , several months before the birth of his daughter. Later, Maria Debladis will marry her second husband, her sister Anna's husband, then a widower, Mr. Nicolas Hervieu, Magistrate in Bonnieres sur Seine, who used to live in the house next to the Sembat's house.

1885   Georgette Agutte learns sculpture with Schröeder

1888   She marries the art critic Paul Flat

1893   She attends Gustave Moreau's studio as an independent student (no woman was accepted in the School of Fine Arts, then)

1894   She divorces Paul Flat

1897   On 27 th of February, in Bonnières, she marries Marcel-Etienne Sembat, son of the postmaster of the canton. She knew him since childhood when she came to visit her aunt Anna Debladis in Bonnieres, who used to live next door to the Sembat family.

 

Marcel Sembat was one of the great personalities of that era :

Public law specialist, lawyer, businessman, deputy of Montmartre, minister during first world war, free-mason, art lover and patron of numerous avant-garde artistswith whom the couple kept a constant friendship, real and sincere (Henri Matisse, Paul Signac, Maximilien Luce, André Metthey…)

 

1897-1922   the couple divide their time between the house in Bonnieres, the house in Paris (11 rue Cauchois, at the bottom of Butte Montmartre) and Chamonix (where the couple had a chalet built: “le Murger”) and numerous trips in France and several countries.

 

1922   The couple met their death in their chalet in Chamonix, on the 4 th and 5 th of September. Marcel Sembat dies following a stroke. Georgette Agutte decides to follow him.