Anne Vallayer-Coster

Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744 - February 28th 1818) was a painter Frenchwoman.

Girl of goldsmith, born Vallayer, it is the pupil of Madeleine Basseporte and Claude Joseph Vernet. She is allowed with the Royal Académie of Painting and of Sculpture the July 28th 1770 at the 26 years age as a dead natural painter of and she exposes to the Living room as of the following year.

She marries in 1781 Jean-Pierre Sylvestre Coster, lawyer at the Parliament and general receiver.

She successfully continues her career until her death. She becomes Chef of the cabinet of painting of the queen Marie-Antoinette like her professor of drawing. She was specialist in Portrait S and of dead nature but also illustrated itself by painting genre paintings and miniatures.

Works

  • Musical instruments , (1770), part of reception to the Academy
  • Attributes of Painting, the Sculpture and Architecture , (1770), part of reception to the Academy
  • Portrait of Joseph-Charles Roettiers , (1777), Museum of the Still life Castle of Versailles
  • with the Lobster , (1817)

Reference

  • Marianne Roland Michel, Anne Vallayer-Coster , Alençon, 1970.
  • Marianne Roland Michel, Eik Kahng, Collective, " Anne Vallayer-Coster. Painter at the court of Marie-Antoinette" , 2003.

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