Paule Gobillard was a French painter and pastellist. She was born in Quimperlé in 1867 and died in Paris in 1946.

A niece of Berthe Morisot, she learned to paint in the artist’s close circle, alongside her sister Jeannie Gobillard and her cousin Julie Manet. She also copied Old Masters at the Louvre under her aunt’s guidance and obtained her own copyist’s permit in 1886.

Both an artist and a model, Gobillard posed several times for Auguste Renoir and Berthe Morisot. She appears, for example, in Morisot’s Paule Gobillard Painting (1887), now in the collection of the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris.

Gobillard was part of a generation of artists who grew up around the Impressionists, learned from them and carried their artistic legacy forward.

Over the years, she developed her own practice and regularly exhibited at major Paris Salons, including the Salon des Indépendants from 1894 and the Salon des Tuileries from 1926. She worked across a wide range of subjects and techniques, from portraits and landscapes to still lifes, using oil, watercolour and pastel.

Several of her works are now held in public collections, including the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée départemental Stéphane Mallarmé.