Painting ID:: 73444
Une etude de femme d'apres nature dit aussi Portrait de Madame Soustras Une etude de femme d'apres nature dit aussi Portrait de Madame Soustras
Oil on canvas
146 X 114 cm (57.48 X 44.88 in)
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Marie-Denise Villers (1774 - August 19, 1821) was a French painter, who specialized in portraits. She was born Marie-Denise Lemoine in Paris. She came from an artistic family, and her sisters Marie-Victoire Lemoine and Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou were also accomplished artists. In 1794, Marie-Denise married an architecture student, Michel-Jean-Maximilien Villers.
Villers was a student of the French painter Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson. She was first exhibited at the Paris Salon of the Year VII (1799). Villers' most famous painting, Young Woman Drawing, Une etude de femme d'apres nature dit aussi Portrait de Madame Soustras Une etude de femme d'apres nature dit aussi Portrait de Madame Soustras
Oil on canvas
146 X 114 cm (57.48 X 44.88 in)
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