Marie denise villers biography of george michael

Within her family, Marie-Denise was known as "Nisa. Little is known about Marie-Denise's childhood, however it is likely that through her much older sisters and cousin she would have been introduced to the salons of Paris. Villers was also a student of Jacques-Louis David.

Young Woman Drawing by the eighteenth century French artist Marie-Denise Villers, which I featured in my blog (January 21st ).

Villers' most famous painting, "Portrait of Charlotte du Val d'Ognes", created in , has been attributed to various artists and shown under a variety of titles through its long history. Originally, the portrait was in the du Val d'Ognes family for generations, where it had been attributed to Jacques-Louis David. In , Margaret Oppenheimer successfully argued that Villers painted the work.

Villers exhibited "Study of a young woman sitting on a window" and two other works at the Salon of , followed in by a genre painting entitled "A child in its cradle" and "A Study of a Woman from Nature. Her husband supported her art, during a time when many women were forced to give up professional art work after marriage. Her life between the time of her last dated painting in and her death in remains unknown.

Marie-Denise Villers was highly famous for her paintings "A young woman seated by a window", "Bildnis einer jungen Frau an einer Marie-Denise Villers adhered to the artistic traditions of Neoclassicism.

At the age of twenty she married an architect student Michel-Jean-Maximillien Villers.

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