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Antoine Vestier
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Portrait_of_a_Lady_with_a_Book,_Next_to_a_River_Source
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ca._1785(1785)
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130_X_97_cm_(51.18_X_38.19_in)
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Portrait of a Lady with a Book, Next to a River Source
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Oil on canvas
130 X 97 cm (51.18 X 38.19 in)
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(1740 - 1824) was a French miniaturist and painter of portraits, born at Avallon in Burgundy, who trained in the atelier of Jean-Baptiste Pierre. He showed his work at the Salon de la Correspondance, Paris, before being admitted to the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1785, when a portrait of the painter Gabriel-François Doyen, pwas his morceau de reception.
Among his sitters was the royal beniste, Jean-Henri Riesener (1786, Musee de Versailles).
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