拍品专文
Mademoiselle Capet exhibited her first work, a portrait aux trois crayons, at the Exposition de la jeunesse in 1781. By this date she was already living with her teacher Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. After that date, she regularly showed some of her works in minor exhibitions, including that at the Place Dauphine, on the Thursday of the Octave de la Fête-Dieu where she exhibited an autoportrait, dessin. Capet exhibited at the Salon regularly from 1791 until 1814. Even when Labille-Guiard married the painter Vincent in 1800, after a twenty-year relationship, Gabrielle Capet continued to live with her, first in the Louvre and then at the Institute. At Labille-Guiard's death in 1802, she continued to share lodgings with Vincent.
The present portrait could possibly be a self-portrait, or alternatively one of her fellow students at Labille-Guiard's studio. A portrait of her by Vincent was sold at Christie's, New York, 30 January 1997, lot 185, illustrated, and another portrait of her by Labille-Guiard is illustrated in A. Doria, Gabrielle Capet, Paris, 1934, pl. III.
The present portrait could possibly be a self-portrait, or alternatively one of her fellow students at Labille-Guiard's studio. A portrait of her by Vincent was sold at Christie's, New York, 30 January 1997, lot 185, illustrated, and another portrait of her by Labille-Guiard is illustrated in A. Doria, Gabrielle Capet, Paris, 1934, pl. III.