Marie-Gabrielle Capet
Marie-Gabrielle Capet (born September 6, 1761 in Lyon , † November 1, 1818 in Paris ) was a French classicist painter .
life and work
Marie-Gabrielle Capet, who came from a humble background, was born in 1761 as the daughter of a servant. In 1781 she traveled to Paris to study painting in the women's school for painters with the artist Adélaïde Labille-Guiard . Her classmates included Marie-Victoire d'Avril and Carreaux de Rosemond. When some of her drawings and pastels were shown for the first time in the exhibition de la Jeunesse , the young artist was still completely unknown. Two years later she mastered oil painting and made her first self-portraits in oil paints in 1783 and 1784.
From 1785 Capet's great works were shown in the exhibition de la Jeunesse . In the same year two officers' pictures were submitted to the Salon de la Correspondance , so that in 1786 one of her pastels could be exhibited there. The good criticism that followed and the fact that she was a student of Labille-Guiard were probably the main reasons why Marie Capet received her first assignments.
Among her customers were Madame Longrois, the wife of the administrator of Fontainebleau, the clergyman Moisset, the general of Oratoire and members of the royal family. These included the aunts of King Mesdames Adélaïde and Victoire in 1787 , who were also portrayed by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. From 1791 she first exhibited her miniature pictures in the salon. She had great success with it until the end of her career. She made many of her pastel portraits on behalf of private individuals, such as those of Etienne Elias, the lawyer Nicolas-Pierre Berryer and the dramaturge and member of the tribunal Marie-Joseph Chénier .
Marie Capet often represented other artists such as Joseph-Marie Vien , Joseph-Benoît Suvée , Jean-Antoine Houdon , Louis Vincent Leon Pallière and his brother Armand Julien Pallière, Charles Meynier and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard , named Madame Vincent after her second husband from 1800 François-André Vincent , your teacher and roommate. When Labille-Guiard fell ill, her pupil looked after her until her death in 1803. From 1814, Capet also dealt with historical scenarios, for example, she painted a mythological representation of Hygieia , goddess of health, which she offered to Doctor Moreau de la Sarthe. She painted her probably last oil painting Portrait of Madame Demetz in 1815. She died in Paris in 1818.
literature
- S. Parlić Barišić: Capet, Marie Gabrielle . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 16, Saur, Munich a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-598-22756-6 , pp. 240 f.
- Vivian Cameron: Gabrielle Capet . In: Delia Gaze (Ed.): Dictionary of Women Artists . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, London and Chicago 1997, Volume 1, pp. 345-346.
- Comte Arnauld Doria: Gabrielle Capet . Les Beaux-Arts "Editions d'études et de documents", Paris 1934.
- Thomas W. Gaehtgens: A painted artist genealogy. To Marie-Gabrielle Capet's studio scene in Munich's Neue Pinakothek . In: Low German contributions to art history . Volume 38, 1999, pp. 209-219.
- Ann Sutherland Harris and Linda Nochlin: Women Artists. 1550-1950. Catalog d'exposition. Los Angeles County Museum of Art et ailleurs . Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1976.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Capet, Marie-Gabrielle |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Capet, Marie Gabrielle; Capet, Gabrielle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter of classicism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1761 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyon |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1818 |
| Place of death | Paris |