Marie Tussaud
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Anna Maria "Marie" Tussaud, commonly known as Madame Tussaud, was a French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussauds, the wax museum she founded in London.
Madame Tussaud "at the age of 42, when she left France for England". Portrait study by John Theodore Tussaud.
Photograph of Madame Tussaud, after a drawing attributed to Francis Tussaud
Poster for Tussaud wax figure exhibition in London, 1835
English Heritage blue plaque marking one of Tussaud's homes in the City of Westminster, London
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Marie Tussaud
…Tussaud said she then was employed to make death masks and whole body casts of the revolution's famous victims, including Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Princesse de Lamballe, Jean-Paul Marat, and Maximilien Robespierre. When Curtius died in 1794, he left his collection of wax works to Tussaud. In 1795, she married François…
Portrait by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Portrait of Marie Thérèse in 1779, by Marie-Victoire Lemoine
Portrait of Marie Thérèse, by Joseph Duplessis (c. 1775)
Portrait of Marie Thérèse in 1788, by Anton Hickel at the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna