masterpiecedaily: Marie-Gabrielle Cape Portrait of…
Marie-Gabrielle Cape
Portrait of Anne-Felicite Gersille
1785
I threw this in my “Drafts”, because I wanted to reblog it, but I wanted to try to find out more about the artist first. And then a funny thing happened: I found out she doesn’t exist. At least, Google has no record of a painter by that name, other than this post from masterpiecedaily and a few places that appear to be referencing it.
Some head-scratching and re-searching and general refusal to take no for an answer later, I realized there’s a typo in the original caption: Her last name is Capet, with a “t”. There still isn’t much about her, but there’s this from Wikipedia:
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. Her painting of sculptor Augustin Pajou earned her admission to the Royal Academy.[1] Mile, Capet died in Paris in 1818.
There’s also this self-portrait she painted in 1783, when she would have been 22:
Reposted from http://lies.tumblr.com/post/53360665401.
