Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) 

• Was a French Neoclassical painter. 
• Born in Lyon.
• Capet attended a public drawing school located in her town.
• In 1781, twenty-year-old Capet moved to Paris to become the student of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard.
• Capet showed her early work at the Exposition de la jeunesse in 1781 and 1783 and later exhibited at the Salon when it was opened to all artists after the French Revolution.
• Her body of work included miniature paintings, oil paintings, and pastels.
• Capet lived with Labille-Guiard and her husband, the painter François Vincent, in their apartment in the Louvre.
• After Labille-Guiard's death, Capet continued to live with Vincent until his death in 1816.
• Upon his death, she purchased Labille-Guiard and Vincent's estate.
• Capet died in Paris in 1818.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Study of a Seated Woman Seen from Behind (Marie-Gabrielle Capet), 1789.
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