Marie-Denise Villers 1774 – 19 August 1821 was a French painter who specialized in Portraits. Marie-Denise Lemoine was born in Paris to Charles Lemoine and Marie-Anne Rouselle. Two of her three sisters, Marie-Victoire Lemoine (1754–1820) and Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou (1755–1812), as well as distant cousin Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet (1767–1832), were all trained as portraitists.
Little is known about Marie-Denise's childhood, however, it is likely that through her much older sisters and cousin she would have been introduced to the salons of Paris. It was In the Paris Salon of 1799 that she met the artist Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, and also began to take painting lessons with François Gérard and Jacques-Louis David. In 1794, she married an architecture student, Michel-Jean-Maximilien Villers. Her husband supported her art, during a time when many women were forced to give up professional artwork after marriage. Her life between the time of her last dated painting (1814) and her death in 1821 remains unknown.
, Her most famous painting was Portrait of Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1801) for years they thought that a man painted this but it was later discovered that Marie painted this self-portrait.
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Little is known about Marie-Denise's childhood, however, it is likely that through her much older sisters and cousin she would have been introduced to the salons of Paris. It was In the Paris Salon of 1799 that she met the artist Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, and also began to take painting lessons with François Gérard and Jacques-Louis David. In 1794, she married an architecture student, Michel-Jean-Maximilien Villers. Her husband supported her art, during a time when many women were forced to give up professional artwork after marriage. Her life between the time of her last dated painting (1814) and her death in 1821 remains unknown.
, Her most famous painting was Portrait of Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1801) for years they thought that a man painted this but it was later discovered that Marie painted this self-portrait.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Denise_Villers#cite_note-FOOTNOTEQuinn201759-4
https://www.google.com.au/search?safe=active&rlz=1C1CHZL_enAU760AU760&biw=1360&bih=637&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=Db6PWq3qDIr8jwOclZYI&q=Artist+Marie+Villers+works+of+art&oq=Artist+Marie+Villers+works+of+art
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