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Anne Vallayer-Coster
(21 December 1744 – 28 February 1818) was an 18th-century French painter, best known for her
still-life
works. When she was 26, she was admitted to the prestigious
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
; Vallayer-Coster was one of only four women to be accepted into the Académie before the
French Revolution
, in a period when men dominated the profession. By 1780, she had come under the patronage of
Marie Antoinette
, after which her career flourished. This 1783 oil-on-canvas portrait, showing Vallayer-Coster at work, is by the Swedish painter
Alexander Roslin
. The painting is in the collection of the
Crocker Art Museum
in
Sacramento, California
.
Painting credit:
Alexander Roslin
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