Suzanne Valadon was a French painter who was born Marie-Clémentine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France. In 1894, Valadon became the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. She was also the mother of painter Maurice Utrillo.
Self-portrait, 1898, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Valadon as a young woman
Valadon is depicted dancing in Dance at Bougival (1883), by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Joy of Life (1911), by Suzanne Valadon, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Maurice Utrillo, born Maurice Valadon; 26 December 1883 – 5 November 1955), was a French painter of the School of Paris who specialized in cityscapes. From the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre to have been born there.
Portrait of Maurice Utrillo (1921), by Suzanne Valadon, his mother
Maurice Utrillo and his mother Suzanne Valadon, 1890
Tomb of Utrillo, Cemetery Saint Vincent, Paris
La Rue Norvins à Montmartre, 1910