Ambroise-Marguerite Bardin

Ambroise-Marguerite Bardin, Self-portrait of the artist, painting her father Jean Bardin, 1791 (Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans)

Ambroise-Marguerite Bardin (1768–1842) was a French painter and pastellist.

Born in Charmentray, Bardin was the daughter of painter Jean Bardin (1732–1809), with whom she studied; her mother was Marie-Madeleine Le Gein (c.1742–1805). On February 11, 1793, she married Pierre-François Mollière, a drawing teacher and assistant of her father's, in Orléans, and with him would later establish a porcelain factory.[1] It appears that she abandoned painting upon her marriage.[2] She also practiced engraving during her career.[3] One "Mlle Bardin soeur" advertised drawing materials in a 1791 edition of the Journal de Loiret, but evidence suggests this was the painter's aunt; she had no sisters. Bardin died in Paris. A pastel self-portrait in which she is painting a portrait of her father, dated 1791, is in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Profile at the Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800.
  2. ^ "Bardin, Ambroise-Marguerite". thesaurus.cerl.org. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  3. ^ The Triumph of Eros: Art and Seduction in 18th-Century France. Fontanka. 2006. ISBN 978-0-9543095-8-9.
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