Thérèse-Marie-Rosine Geraldy was a French portrait artist.
Background
Born at Paris, Geraldy was the daughter of Louis Paul Lucien Geraldy, an artist, by his marriage to Marie-Anne-Elizabeth Delsarte, a drawing mistress, and was one of four children. She was a granddaughter of the musician François Delsarte and a cousin of the sculptor Maxime Real del Sarte.
Career
As a painter, she specialized in portraiture. In 1906 the Société des Artistes Français gave Geraldy an honourable mention, as reported in Le Figaro and Le Radical on 30 May 1906. On 30 April 1908 Comœdia warmly reviewed her portrait of the politician Paul Escudier.
In 1910 she was awarded the Prix Galimard-Jaubert, worth the substantial sum of 4,800 Francs payable over four years.
In 1912 she painted Lord de Saumarez, of Guernsey. Other subjects included Helen Templeton Pogue, the Duchess of Nemours, and the Countess Rosario Schiffner de Larrechea de Zubov.
She died at Paris on 31 July 1965. 1907 at Salon of the Société des Artistes Français
1908 at Salon of the Société des Artistes Français
1909 at Salon of the Société des Artistes Français
1925 at Salon of the Société des Artistes Français
1933 at Salon of the Société des Artistes Français, portrait of Georges Krier
1937 at Exposition internationale (Silver medallist).