Marie-Gabrielle Capet

Marie-Gabrielle Capet (6 September 1761 – 1 November 1818) was a French Neoclassical painter. Capet came from a modest background, and her previous background and artistic training is unknown. In 1781, she became the pupil of the French painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard in Paris. She excelled as a portrait painter, and her works include oil paintings, watercolours, and miniatures.

Marie-Gabrielle Capet was born in Lyon on 6 September 1761. In her youth, Capet attended a public drawing school located in her town. In 1781, twenty-year-old Capet moved to Paris to become the student of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749–1803), a Neoclassical artist who was admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1783. As her student, Capet assisted Labille-Guiard by modeling, finishing certain sections of paintings, and producing miniature copies of her teacher's oil paintings.

Capet showed her early work at the Exposition de la jeunesse in 1781 and 1783 and later exhibited at the Salon when it was opened to all artists after the French Revolution.