Adeline was a French painter born in Saint-Etienne (Loire) in 1906, and died in Chauffailles (Saône-et-Loire) in 1987. Considered as a regional artist, Adeline Hugonnard devoted a large part of her works to floral motifs. A student at the Saint-Etienne School of Fine Arts, she exhibited five paintings at the Salon de la Société des Arts du Forez in 1925 (chrysanthemums, dahlias, wallflowers, roses and daisy queens). She never stopped painting and regularly exhibited in regional shows: Saint-Etienne, Lyon (Salon d'Automne), Roanne. She painted some oval canvases until the 1930s. Her watercolors are more rare.
As soon as she was born in 1906, she was diagnosed with a malformation of the larynx which made her deaf and dumb. This handicap undoubtedly hindered her artistic career and her reputation as an artist.
When her father died in 1940, she lived alone with her mother. After her mother's death, she entered the Chauffailles retirement home, where the management provided her with a studio space. Adeline continued to paint flowers, on many different supports (lining of her coat, floor cloths, etc.). When she died without posterity, she donated her studio collection to the town of Chauffailles.
Two of her works are kept at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Saint-Etienne Métropole. another at the National Center for Plastic Arts (CNAP), others still at the Museum of the City of Chauffailles.
A student at the Saint-Etienne School of Fine Arts, Adeline Hugonnard exhibited five paintings at the Salon de la Société des Arts du Forez in 1925 (chrysanthemums, dahlias, wallflowers, roses and daisies). Among the works in the show were paintings by Antoine Barbier, a master watercolourist from Lyon. In 1926, the city of Saint-Etienne bought a still life, flowers and fruits. This was the first work (of a long series) acquired by the people of Saint-Etienne (institutional and private collections). She never stopped painting. She regularly exhibited in regional shows: Saint-Étienne, Lyon (Salon d'Automne), Roanne. Her father died in 1940. She now lived alone with her mother and entered the Chauffailles retirement home after her mother's death, where the management provided her with a studio space. Adeline continued to paint flowers, on many different supports (lining of her coat, floor cloths, etc.). On her death, she donated her studio collection to the town of Chauffailles. A collection of her works is kept at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Saint-Étienne (Loire), as well as at the Château de Chauffailles (Saône-et-Loire), alongside the works of Marcelle Journay. An exhibition organised by the gallery "La Bartavelle" took place in 2010 in Charlieu (Loire): "Adeline Hugonnard, painter of flowers", as well as in 2014 in Usson-En-Forez (Loire): "Adeline Hugonnard, a life of painting".