Anne Vallayer-Coster

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Alexander Roslin : Portrait of Anne Vallayer-Coster, oil on canvas, 1783

Anne Vallayer , better known as Anne Vallayer-Coster (* December 21, 1744 in Paris , † February 28, 1818 there ), was a French painter of the French school.

Madame Anne Vallayer-Coster belonged to a small circle of professional painters, including Marie-Guillemine Benoist , Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun , Marguerite Gérard , Angelika Kauffmann , Marie-Gabrielle Capet and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard .

Live and act

"Still life with shell and coral"

Anne Vallayer was the daughter of a Parisian goldsmith and a miniature painter .

She was a student of Françoise Basseporte (1701–1780) and Claude Joseph Vernet (1714–1789) - in July 1770 Vallayer studied at the renowned Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture .

In the following years she specialized in still life and portrait painting and was one of the most successful women in the art of her time.

Her patrons included Queen Marie-Antoinette , Louis-Gabriel, marquis de Véri-Raionard, the Abbé Terray , the prince de Conti, the banker Beaujon and the comte de Merle.

On April 23, 1781, she married the Paris lawyer and politician Jean-Pierre Sylvestre Coster in Versailles .

Works (selection)

  • Still Life with Lobster (1781)

  • Still Life with a Ham (1767)

  • Instruments de Musiqu e (1770)

  • Les Attributs de la Peinture, de la Sculpture et de l'Architecture (1769)

  • Bouquet de fleurs dans un verre d'eau

literature

  • Marianne Roland Michel: Anne Vallayer-Coste r, Alençon (1970)
  • Eik Kahng and Marianne Roland Michel: Anne Vallayer-Coster. Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette , (2002) ISBN 0-300-09329-2

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personal data
SURNAME Vallayer-Coster, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vallayer, Anne; Coster, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1818
Place of death Paris