Césarine Davin-Mirvault

François Joseph Lefebvre, Duke of Dantzig, Marshal of France, portrait from 1807, now at the Palace of Versailles

Césarine Henriette Flore Davin-Mirvault, a French painter of portraits and miniatures, whose maiden name was Mirvault, was born in Paris in 1773. She studied under Suvée, David, and Augustin, and afterwards established a school of drawing and painting, in which she had many pupils. Madame Davin died in Paris in 1844.

Portrait of Asker-Khan, Ambassador of Persia, from 1809

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This article incorporates text from the article "DAVIN, Césarine Henriette Flore" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.