Marie De Bièvre

Marie de Bièvre (Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, 30 January 1865 – Ixelles, 7 October 1940) was a Belgian painter known mainly for her still lifes. Born in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, near Brussels, she belonged to a generation of late nineteenth-century artists who sought a place in a field still dominated by men.

Bièvre helped found several artists' groups: the Cercle des aquarellistes et des aquafortistes belges, established in 1883, whose members included the painter Alfred William Finch; Voorwaerts, in 1885; and the Cercle des Femmes Peintres, in 1888, a meeting place for women artists. Her work travelled beyond Belgium on several occasions. She exhibited at the Woman's Building during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, at the Antwerp International Exhibition of 1894, and at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900.

She is associated with still life and interior painting, genres she pursued alongside the other work of her period. She died on 7 October 1940 in Ixelles, during the German occupation of Belgium.