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{{short description|French painter}}{{Infobox artist
| image            = Jeanne Rij-Rousseau 1929.jpg
| birth_date       = (June 10, 1870
| birth_place      = Candé, Maine-et-Loire, France
| death_date       = October 22, 1956
| death_place      = Savigny-sur-Braye, France
| nationality      = French
| movement         = Vibrism, Cubism, Section d'Or
| birth_name       = Jeanne Caffier
}}

'''Jeanne Rij-Rousseau''' (June 10, 1870 – October 22, 1956) was a French [[Cubism|Cubist]] painter and an art theoretician. Her estate has been scattered throughout the world. Paintings are trafficked in N.Y., Chicago, London, and Paris. Some works are in Parisian museums, in [[Blois]], and in [[Grenoble]], but especially in private collectors' homes. Research on this painter of the French Modern Age is still in its beginnings.

==Biography==
Rij-Rousseau was born in [[Candé]]. From 1890 on, she lived in [[Paris]] and moved in an artistic circle with painters of the "Ile de la Grande Jatte" in [[Montmartre]]. She was a student of [[Maurice Denis]] and [[Paul Sérusier]]. Sérusier's ideas regarding the coherence between music and painting gave rise to her theory of vibrism, which is a middle course between the [[Synthetic Cubism]] of the pre-war period and [[Mikhail Larionov|Larionov]] and [[Natalia Goncharova|Goncharova's]] [[Rayonism]].

She was united to [[Juan Gris]] in a lifelong and intimate friendship. From 1908 on, Rij-Rousseau exhibited her works in [[Salon des Indépendants]], from 1911 on, in [[Salon d'Automne]] and from 1924 on, in [[Salon des Tuileries]]. In 1920, she was a member of the artist circle called [[Section d'Or]]. She frequently traveled to South France, especially to [[Céret]], and also to [[Germany]], [[Belgium]] and [[Switzerland]]. Her paintings were displayed in [[Zurich]], [[Brussels]], [[New York City|New York]], and [[Boston]].

In [[Aubusson, Creuse|Aubusson]] and [[Beauvais]]' manufactories large-size tapestries designed by her were produced. In 1925, she was awarded a gold medal for one of them in the first [[Art Deco|Arts Décoratifs']] exhibition.
[[Guillaume Apollinaire]] named her a "searcher", and her colour choices were admired by Florent Fels and [[André Salmon]].

Also in 1925, Rij-Rousseau founded the Association of Modern-Age Female Painters. She exhibited with [[Suzanne Duchamp]] and [[Marie Laurencin]], among others. Aside from [[Colette]], Rij-Rousseau's biography was published in the book, ''Führende Frauen Europas'' by Elga Kern as a representative of French art.

Her fame did not last long, and in 1956 she died lonely, impoverished and forgotten in her great-niece's house in [[Savigny-sur-Braye]]. Her final exhibition in [[Château de Blois]] in 1959 attracted little notice, and the whereabouts of the 70 exhibited paintings are still unknown.

==Further reading==
*Debray, Cécile; Lucbert, Françoise. ''La Section d'or''. Edition Cercle d'Art. Paris 2000
*Kern, Elga. ''Führende Frauen Europas''. Ernst Reinhardt Verlag München 1930

==External links==
*{{Commons category-inline|Jeanne Rij-Rousseau}}

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