Marie-Gabrielle Capet

Marie -Gabrielle Capet ( born September 6, 1761 Lyon, † November 1, 1818 in Paris) was a French painter of classicism.

Life

Originating from humble Marie -Gabrielle Capet was born in 1761 as the daughter of a staff member. In 1781, at age twenty, she traveled to Paris to study painting in the later women's school for painters in painter Adélaïde Labille - Guiard. Her classmates included, among others, Marie- Victoire d' Avril and Carreaux de Rosemond († 1788). As then in the exhibition de la Jeunesse some of her drawings and pastels were shown for the first time, the young artist was still completely unknown. Two years later she mastered now the oil painting, so that they their first self-portraits anfertigte in oil paints in 1783 and 1784. From 1785 then Capet great works were exhibited in the exhibition de la Jeunesse. In the same year two pictures of officers at the Salon de la Correspondance were sent, so that in 1786 one of her pastels allowed to be exhibited there. The subsequent good review, they then got and probably also the fact that she was a student Labille - Guiard, have surely been crucial that Marie Capet finally received their first orders.

Among her clients included, among others, Madame Longrois, the wife of the manager of Fontainebleau, the clergyman father Moisset, the General of the Oratory, as well as members of the royal family, among others, in 1787 the aunts of the king Mesdames Adélaïde and Victoire, which is also of Adélaïde Labille - Guiard were portrayed. From 1791 she also presented for the first time from their thumbnails in the salon, for which it was known until the end of her career. Many of her pastel portraits were commissions from private individuals, as described by Etienne Elias, the lawyer Nicolas- Pierre Berryer and dramatist and member of the Tribunal Marie -Joseph Chénier. Capet often represented other artists as Vien, Suvée, Houdon, Pallière, Meynier and Vincent and Labille - Guiard. When her teacher and roommate Adélaïde Labille - Guiard ill, Marie Capet used them to death in 1803., From 1814, she dealt then with history scenarios, so she painted a mythological representation of Hygieia, goddess of health, that they the Doctor Moreau de la Sarthe offered. Your probably last oil painting Portrait of Madame Demetz painted it in 1815 after she stopped with the painting and died 1818 in Paris.