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Marie-Gabrielle Capet
French painter / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marie-Gabrielle Capet (6 September 1761 – 1 November 1818) was a French Neoclassical painter. 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]
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Marie-Gabrielle Capet | |
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![]() Self portrait in 1783, in the collection of the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo | |
Born | (1761-09-06)6 September 1761 Lyon, France |
Died | 1 November 1818(1818-11-01) (aged 57) Paris, France |
Style | Neoclassicism |
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