Marie-Gabrielle Capet
| Marie-Gabrielle Capet | |
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Self portrait in 1783, in the collection of the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo | |
| Born |
6 September 1761 Lyon, Kingdom of France |
| Died |
1818 Paris, Kingdom of France |
| Nationality | French |
| Style | Neoclassicism |
Marie-Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) was a French Neoclassical painter. She was born in Lyon on September 6, 1761. Marie-Gabrielle came from a modest background and her previous background and artistic training is unknown, but in 1781 she became the pupil of the French painter Adelaide Labille-Guiard in Paris. She excelled as a portrait painter, and her works include oil paintings, watercolours and miniatures.[1]
Life
Capet was born at Lyon in 1761. In many countries of Europe, the Art Academies were the institutions that promoted artists and also was responsible for training artists, exhibiting artwork, promote a certain style, and promoting the sale of art. In France, the influential Academy of Art in Paris until the French Revolution had only fifteen women among its members, and many were daughters or wives of members anyway. In the late 18th century, the French Academy decided not to admit any women at all. Because of this, Marie-Gabrielle Capet became a pupil of Madame Vincent, (Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. Capet moved at the age of twenty to Paris to be the apprentice of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749-1803). She moved in with her teacher in the Louvre, and she lived with Adélaïde Labille-Guiard until her teacher died.[2][3][4] Even when Adélaïde Labille-Guiard married the painter François Vincent in 1799, she continued to live in their home. Many of her pastel paintings were portraits. [5][6]
She exhibited from 1781, producing a large number of portraits. She counted among other customers several members of the royal family, and other members of Paris society, such as the lawyer Pierre-Nicolas Berryer and the playwright Joseph Chénier.[7]
Among her works the best known are those of Mesdames Adelaide and Victoire, Madame Vincent surrounded by her pupils, Mlle. Mars, and Jean-Antoine Houdon. At that time the Academie had limited the members of women painters to only four woman members.[8][9][10] She died in Paris in 1818.[11]
Works
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The atelier of Madame Vincent, painting from 1808 now in the Neue Pinakothek, Munich.
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Gabrielle Marie Capet: Simon Charles Miger, 1806
See also
External links
References
- ↑ "Marie-Gabrielle Capet". collection.nmwa.go.jp.
- ↑ "marie-gabrielle+capet+biography". Retrieved 2015.
- ↑ "marie-gabrielle+capet+biography". books.google.se. Retrieved 2015.
- ↑ "Women Artists in Nineteenth–Century France". /www.metmuseum.org.
- ↑ "Marie-Gabrielle Capet". /www.femmespeintres.net. Retrieved 2015.
- ↑ Heller, Nancy G., Women Artists: An Illustrated History, Abbeville Press, Publishers, New York 1987 ISBN 978-0-89659-748-8
- ↑ "marie-joseph-chenier-1800". fr-peint.blogspot.se. Retrieved 2015.
- ↑ Golemba, Beverly E. (1992). Lesser-known Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Boulder u.a.: Rienner. p. 37. ISBN 978-1-55587-301-1.
- ↑ "Self–Portrait with Two Pupils". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2015.
- ↑ Zoffany, Johan (1771–1772). "The Royal Academicians". The Royal Collection. Retrieved 2015.
- ↑ "Articles/Capet" (PDF). www.pastellists.com. Retrieved February 11, 2015.
This article incorporates text from the article "CAPET, Marie Gabrielle" 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.
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