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{{short description|French sculptor, medallist and painter}}
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| birth_name       = '''Jeanne Élisa Henriette Beetz'''<ref name="Geni">[https://www.geni.com/people/Jeanne-%C3%89lisa-Beetz/6000000067809854856 Jeanne Élisa Henriette Beetz] – [[Geni.com]]</ref>
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| birth_place      = [[Schaerbeek]], Belgium
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| death_date       ={{Death year and age|1949|1859}}<ref name="Orsay">[http://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/espace-professionnelsorn /professionnels/chercheurs/rech-rec-art-home/notice-artiste.html?nnumid=2686 ''Elisa Beetz-Charpentier''.] In: [[Musée d’Orsay]]</ref>
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'''Élisa Beetz-Charpentier'''  (1859 – 1949) was a French sculptor, [[medallist]] and painter. She studied sculpture at the [[Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts|Brussels Academy]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wijnsouw|first=Jana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=THE3DwAAQBAJ&q=%C3%89lisa+Beetz&pg=PT393|title=National Identity and Nineteenth-Century Franco-Belgian Sculpture|date=2017-09-27|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-351-77814-5|language=en}}</ref>
==Work==
Beetz-Charpentier was principally active as an artist from 1905 to 1924.<ref>{{cite web |title=Union List of Artist Names |url=http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500192279 |website=www.getty.edu}}</ref> Between 1910 et 1924, she showed at the [[Paris salon]] as a member of the [[Société nationale des beaux-arts]], which she joined in 1905.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |title=Beetz-Charpentier, Élisa |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00015204 |website=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |year = 2011|language=en |doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00015204|isbn=978-0-19-977378-7 }}</ref>
In 1909 she won a First Prize for "a Plaquette commemorating the Centenary of the Paris Firm of Pleyel, in competition with several other medallists."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Forrer|first=Leonard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pVVmAAAAMAAJ&q=%C3%89lisa+Beetz-Charpentier&pg=PA61|title=Biographical dictionary of medallists: coin-, gem-, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, &c., ancient and modern, with references to their works : B. C. 500-A|date=1923|publisher=Baldwin|isbn=978-0-906919-10-1|language=en}}</ref>
In 1918, she created [[Claude Debussy]]'s [[funeral mask]], which is now held in the  [[Cité de la Musique]], Paris.<ref>{{cite web |title=Masque mortuaire de Claude Debussy - Elisabeth Beets-Charpentier |url=https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/masque-mortuaire-de-claude-debussy/YAHYNYJzblbZqw?hl=en |website=Google Arts & Culture |language=en}}</ref> Seven of her medallion works are held in the [[Museé d'Orsay]], Paris.<ref>{{cite web |title=Musée d'Orsay: Liste de résultats dans le catalogue des collections |url=https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/collections/catalogue-des-oeuvres/resultat-collection.html?no_cache=1&zsz=1&zs_r_2_z=3&zs_r_2_w=Beetz-Charpentier%2C%20Elisa&zs_ah=oeuvre&zs_rf=mos_a&zs_mf=21&zs_sf=0&zs_send_x=1&zs_liste_only=1 |website=www.musee-orsay.fr}}</ref>
According to the research of Polish [[heraldist]] Jerzy Michta published in 2017, the version of the [[coat of arms of Poland]] used since 1927, designed by artist Zygmunt Kamiński, was actually copied from a 1924 plaque by Elisa Beetz-Charpentier made in honor of [[Ignacy Paderewski]].<ref name="RP">Wiktor Ferfecki: [https://www.rp.pl/Historia/310289962-Godlo-Polski-jest-plagiatem.html Godło Polski jest plagiatem?]. [[Rzeczpospolita (newspaper)|Rzeczpospolita]], 29 October 2018.</ref>
==Personal life==
Her second husband was [[Alexandre Charpentier]] and the witnesses at their wedding in 1908 were [[Claude Debussy]] and [[Auguste Rodin]].<ref>Jana Wijnsouw: [https://books.google.com/books?id=THE3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT393 ''National Identity and Nineteenth-Century Franco-Belgian Sculpture.''] Routledge, 2017, {{ISBN|1-35177-814-5}}, S.&nbsp;393.</ref> Charpentier died a year later, on 4 March 1909.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Belgique |first1=Musées royaux des beaux-arts de |title=Les plus beaux portraits de nos musées: exposition 22 janvier-19 fevrier 1961 |year=1961 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vFFuAAAAIAAJ&q=%22alexandre+charpentier%22+4+mars+1909 |language=fr}}</ref>
==Sources==
* {{AKL|8|261||Elisa Beetz-Charpentier|}}
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[[Category:People from Schaerbeek]]
[[Category:Belgian emigrants to France]]
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