Marie-Gabrielle Capet

Self portrait, 1783, now at the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo.

Marie-Gabrielle Capet, a French painter of portraits in oil, water-colours, and miniature, was born of humble parentage at Lyons in 1761, and became a pupil of Madame Vincent. She exhibited first in 1781, and from that time onwards produced a large number of portraits, of which the best known are those of Mesdames Adelaide and Victoire, Madame Vincent surrounded by her pupils, Mile. Mars, and Houdon the sculptor. Mile, Capet died in Paris in 1818.

The atelier of Madame Vincent, painting from 1808 now in the Neue Pinakothek, Munich.

References

This article incorporates text from the article "CAPET, Marie Gabrielle" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886-1889 publication now in the public domain.

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Name	Capet, Marie-Gabrielle
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Date of birth	1761
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Date of death	1818
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