Marie-Gabrielle Capet

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Marie-Gabrielle Capet
Marie-Gabrielle Capet - Self-Portrait - Google Art Project.jpg
Self portrait in 1783, in the collection of the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo
Born (1761-09-06)September 6, 1761
Lyon, Kingdom of France
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Paris, Kingdom of France
Nationality French
Style Neoclassicism

Marie-Gabrielle Capet (6 September 1761– 1 November 1818) was a French Neoclassical painter. She was born in Lyon on 6 September 1761. Marie-Gabrielle 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 Labille-Guiard in Paris. She excelled as a portrait painter, and her works include oil paintings, watercolours and miniatures.[1]

Life

In the atelier of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. Labille-Guiard, Self-Portrait with Two Pupils. The pupils are Marie-Gabrielle Capet and Marie-Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond
Marie-Gabrielle Capet, by Labille-Guiard

Marie-Gabrielle Capet was born in Lyon in 1761.[2] In her youth, Capet attended a public drawing school located in her town.[3] In eighteenth-century 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 monarchy. 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.[4] In 1781, twenty-year-old Capet moved to Paris to become the student of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749–1803), a Neoclassical artist who was admitted to the Academy in 1783.

Capet showed her early work at the Exposition de la jeunesse, and later exhibited at the Salon when it was opened to all artists after the French Revolution. Her body of work included miniature paintings, oil paintings, and pastels, which were praised for their virtuoso draftsmanship and use of colour.[5] Many of her pastel paintings were portraits, though by 1808 she was regarded as a history painter in her own right.[6][7][8] She counted among other customers several members of the royal family, and other members of Paris society, such as the lawyer Pierre-Nicolas Berryer and the playwright Joseph Chénier.[8]

Capet and Labille-Guiard not only enjoyed a professional relationship, but were also close family friends. Capet would move in with her teacher at the Louvre until Labille-Guiard's death.[9][10][11] Even after Adélaïde Labille-Guiard married the painter François Vincent in 1799, Capet continued to live in their home. After Adélaïde Labille-Guiard's death, Capet lived with her husband until his death in 1816. Upon his death, Capet purchased Labille-Guiard and Vincent's estate.[12]

Among her works the best known are those of Mesdames Adelaide and Victoire, Madame Vincent surrounded by her pupils, Mlle. Mars, and Jean-Antoine Houdon. At that time the Academy had limited the members of women painters to only four female members.[13][14][15] She died in Paris in 1818.[16]

Works

The work of Marie-Gabrielle Capet contains a large collection of miniature portraits, the majority of which are housed in The Louvre. Included in this collection are portraits of Madame Martin de Lesseps, Madame Elisabeth, sister of Louis XVI, and Mademoiselle Mars.[17]

File:Capet - Presumed portrait of Élisabeth of France - Louvre.jpg
Presumed miniature portrait of Madame Élisabeth by Marie-Gabrielle Capet. 18th Century. Located at the Louvre.

Though little work of Capet is known, there have been some miniatures attributed to her that are speculated to be of Elisabeth-Philippine-Marie-Helene de France, often called Madame Elisabeth. Madame Elisabeth was famously painted by Labille-Guiard as well. The unsigned miniature that is presumed to be of Madame Elisabeth is located at Musee de Lourve.[18] The miniature depicts a woman in a white, muslin dress and a dark sash. Other miniatures signed by Capet have unknown whereabouts.[18]

See also

References

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  2. ↑ For a complete monograph on Capet's life, see Arnauld Doria, Gabrielle Capet, Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, 1934.
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  4. ↑ Laura Auricchio, "Self-Promotion in Adélaïde Labille-Guiard's 1785 "Self Portrait with Two Students", The Art Bulletin, Vol. 89, No. 1 (March 2007)
  5. ↑ Delia Gaze, "Capet, Gabrielle", Dictionary of Women Artists (1997: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers)
  6. ↑ Charles Landon "Salon de 1808", Journal des Arts, des Sciences, et de Littérature, no. 170. 10 Frimaire an 10, p. 65.
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  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Heller, Nancy G., Women Artists: An Illustrated History, Abbeville Press, Publishers, New York 1987 ISBN 978-0-89659-748-8
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