Paule Gobillard (3 December 1867 – 27 February 1946) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter who was heavily influenced by the Impressionists.
[1] The few details on Gobillard's personal life that are extant are largely based on the memoirs of her cousin Julie Manet.
[4] At the age of 26, Gobillard stood orphaned along with her siblings as their mother died in 1893 and resided with her aunt, Berthe in Paris.
Impressed by her Impressionistic tutelage, she painted the everyday life of children, women and the outdoors with the tenderness of light pastels notably in the depiction in her still-lifes of flowers in their vases.
Renoir would often implore the Gobillard sisters to pose for him as models and teach them on the side, painting during his encounters in the southern coast of France, notably in Brittany.