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Marie-Gabrielle Capet
French painter
Marie-Gabrielle Capet (6 September 1761 – 1 November 1818) was a French Neoclassical painter.
Marie-gabrielle capet biography
She was born in Lyon on 6 September 1761. Capet 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 Adélaïde Labille-Guiard in Paris.
She excelled as a portrait painter and her works include oil paintings, watercolours, and miniatures.[1]
Life
Marie-Gabrielle Capet was born in Lyon in 1761.[2] In her youth, Capet attended a public drawing school located in her town.[3] In eighteenth-century France, the Royal Academy of Art was responsible for training artists and exhibiting artworks at the Salon that glorified heroic values promoted by the Bourbon monarchy.
Until the French Revolution, the Royal Academy of Art in Paris was the central institution for official artistic practice, and limited its number of female student