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PANET, Louise-Amélie
- Born
- Quebec, 1789
- Died
- Sainte Melanie, 1862
- Biography synopsis
- Daughter of lawyer and political figure Pierre-Louis Panet, Louise-Amélie Panet-Berczy studied at the Dames de la Congrégation and at various other schools in Montreal, among them that of Charlotte Allamand-Berczy. After marrying the painter William Bent Berczy, son of William Berczy, in 1819, Panet moved to Windsor, Ontario, and then to Toronto. She was considered a talented amateur artist. She later settled on the Sainte-Mélanie d'Ailleboust seigneury in 1819 where she held salons and kept company with the elite of literate circles.
- Media used
- Painting
- File & Archive locations
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Allodi, Mary Macaulay. "Catalogue Amelie Panet Berczy." Berczy. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1991
- Andre, John. William Berczy: Co-founder of Toronto. Toronto: A Canada Centennial project of the Borough of York, 1967
- De Rainville. "Amelie Panet." La Kermesse 9-10 (25 Nov. 1892): 129-35
- Faribault-Beauregard, Marthe. La Vie aux Illinois au XVIIIe siècle, Souvenirs inédits de Marie-Anne Cerré: Un voyage de Montréal à Kamouraska en 1840. Montreal: Societé de recherche historique archiv-histo, 1987
- Le Moine, Roger. "Louise-Amélie Panet. Un destin exceptionnel." Portrait des arts, des lettres et de l’éloquence au Québec (1760-1840). [http://www.unites.uqam.ca/expo/index.html] Sainte-Foy, Québec: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2002
- Massicotte, Édouard-Zotique. "William Berczy & Louise-Amélie Panet." Bulletin des Recherches historiques 47 (1941): 132-5
- Roy, Julie. "Voyages en pays de re-connaissance: Paysages et mémoire dans l'oeuvre de Louise-Amélie Panet-Berczy (1789-1865)." Intercultural Journeys/Parcours interculturels. Ed Dagenais, Natasha; Daxell, Joanna; Rimstead, Roxanne. Baldwin Mills, Quebec: Topeda Hill, 2003: 157-169
- Trudel, Jean. William Berczy: The Woolsey Family. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1976
Writings by- Panet, Louise Amelie and Roger Le Moine. Quelques traits particuliers Aux saisons du Bas Canada Et aux moeurs De l'habitant de ses Campagnes Il y a quelques quarante ans Mis en vers. Orléans: Les Éditions David, 2000
