Marie Gabrielle Capet
MarieGabrielle Capet was a French Neoclassical painter. She was born in Lyon onSeptember 1761. MarieGabrielle 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 LabilleGuiard in Paris. She excelled as a portrait painter, and her works include oil paintings, watercolours and miniatures.
MarieGabrielle Capet was born at Lyon in 1761. In eighteenthcentury 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 patriarchy. 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 students to four at a time. In 1781, twentyyearold Capet moved to Paris to become the student of Adlade LabilleGuiard , a Neoclassical artist who was admitted to the Academy in 1783.
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