Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
Kat.No.: 2008-43
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
Labille-Guiard, Adéla¿de (1749 Paris - 1803 Paris)
This student of miniaturist François-Elie Vincent and later on of pastel painter Quentin de La Tour and easel painter André Vincent exhibited her miniature self-portrait at the Académie Saint-Luc in Paris in 1774 (catalogue no. 2008-43). In 1782 she took part in the exhibition Salon de la Correspondance. The following year she was accepted as a member at the French Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture where she henceforth exhibited her paintings regularly. Around 1785 Labille-Guiard became the official painter to the daughter of Louis XV and the Count of Provence. After her divorce in 1793 she married her former teacher Vincent. Marie-Gabrielle Capet was one of Labille-Guiard' s students. The self-portrait of this artist which had been exhibited at the Salon in Paris and shows her with her two pupils Capet and Rosemond can be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
