Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

This student of the miniaturist François-Elie Vincent, and later of the pastel painter Quentin de La Tour and the easel painter André Vincent, exhibited her miniature self-portrait at the Académie Saint-Luc in Paris in 1774 (Inv .no. 10418). In 1782 she took part in the Salon de la Correspondance exhibition. The following year she was accepted as a member of the French Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture where she exhibited her paintings regularly from then on. At around 1785 Labille-Guiard became 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.