Marie-Antoinette’s Painter – eighteenth century France
When Anne Vallayer – Coster picked-up her brush, she captured not only the moment but the reigning French passion for elegant refinement. Her bold use of color and accomplished brushwork earned her public praise by the time she was twenty-three. The queen made the young painter – a goldsmith’s daughter – a favourite, rewarding with a studio in the louvre, where flower pictures and still life’s brought royal commissions and the attention of wealthy collectors, even after the Revolution. “She pleases as she breaths, without effort or reflection,” wrote one admirer or her work – and her beauty.
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