Josephine Calamatta

Joséphine Calamatta (March 1, 1817 – December 10, 1893) was a French painter and engraver who painted portraits as well as symbolistic, religious and allegorical pictures. Her work was influenced by one of her teachers, the French neo-classical painter, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin was another of her teachers. Her own pictorial voice featured striking and strong use of colour, and was reminiscent of Italian Renaissance art and paintings of the Spanish Baroque painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.