Françoise Basseporte

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Madeleine Françoise Basseporte, (28 April 1701 - 6 September 1780) was a French painter.

Basseporte was born and died in Paris. She became one of the pupils of Claude Aubriet thanks to her precocious talent for design. She replaced him as the Royal Painter after his death. The king Louis XV of France commissioned her to teach the princesses how to paint flowers.

She collaborated with the chemist Rouelle and the sculptor Larchevêque, and studied botany with Jussieu. She later taught anatomical illustration to Marie Marguerite Bihéron, who later became a wax modeler.^[1]

Basseporte also made some parchments about plants for Gaston d'Orléans.

Notes

↑ Londa L. Schiebinger (1991), The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science, pp.27-31.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 37186632 LCCN: no2010140675 ISNI: 0000 0000 8116 3610 GND: 132242761 SUDOC: 075516101 BNF: cb14958857d

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Name	Basseporte, Francoise
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Short description	French painter
Date of birth	28 April 1701
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Date of death	6 September 1780
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