Constance Mayer
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Marie-Françoise Constance Mayer La Martinière was a French painter of portraits, allegorical subjects, miniatures and genre works. She had "a brilliant but bitter career."
Constance Mayer, "Self-Portrait," 1799, oil on canvas, 110 x 85 cm, bibliothèque et villa Marmottan, inv. 1970–1952
Self-Portrait with Artist's Father: He Points to a Bust of Raphael, Inviting Her to Take This Celebrated Painter as a Model, oil on canvas, 1801, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Sophie Fanny Lordon
Amable Tastu, oil on canvas, Musée de Metz, France
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze was a French painter of portraits, genre scenes, and history painting.
Constance Mayer
…daughter of a successful government official. Mayer painted genre scenes and portraits in her early 20s. Having studied with Joseph-Benoît Suvée and Jean-Baptiste Greuze, she adopted a style of soft brush strokes and made paintings of sentimental scenes like those of her instructors. Of Greuze, for instance, his daughters…
Self-portrait, c. 1769
The Guitarist (1757), National Museum in Warsaw.
The White Hat, 1780, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin, 1777