About this artwork
When François-André Vincent made this endearing portrait of Marie-Gabrielle Capet in 1790, he had just been appointed professor at the Royal Academy and curator of the king’s drawings collection. Capet came from Lyons to Paris to study with Vincent’s life-long companion, the portraitist and miniaturist Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. Capet became her favorite pupil, then their housemate and model, and ultimately their caretaker in old age. The artist’s use of three chalks and deliberate grace reflects the preceding era of the Rococo more than the severity of the Neoclassical, revolutionary era.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- François-Andre Vincent
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Title
- Portrait of Marie-Gabrielle Capet
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1790
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Medium
- Black and white chalks, with touches of red chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, with margins in blue laid paper and pen and iron gall ink
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Inscriptions
- Signed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "Vincent / Paris 1790–"; lower right, in pen and brown ink: "a Mlle Capet / Vincent 1815" [crossed out in graphite]; lower center, in graphite: "monture vert . . . / Monture vert et Sculpt ancien" [?]
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Dimensions
- Primary support: 46.2 × 44 cm (18 1/4 × 17 3/8 in.); Secondary support: 58.8 × 51.2 cm (23 3/16 × 20 3/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
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Reference Number
- 2013.1041
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/149541/manifest.json
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