Aglaé-Geneviève-Eurélie Cadet de Gassicourt, known as Aglaé Cadet (c. 1738 – 1801) was a French

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and painter of miniatures. Born in Paris, Cadet was the daughter of lawyer Jean-Pierre Joly, and was supposedly a distant relation of the

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; her family claimed a portion of his estate at one time. In 1761 she became the second wife of Claude-Antoine Cadet de Gassicourt. Their daughter Marie-Aglaé, later married to printseller Julien-François Fatou, became a miniaturist like her mother. A second daughter, Rosalie-Louise, having divorced her first husband, became the wife of the marquis de Montalembert,Profile
at the ''Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800''. while a third, Henriette-Thérèse, married

Jean-Baptiste Weyler Jean-Baptiste Weyler (3 January 1747 – 25 July 1791) was a French miniaturist. One of his pupils is thought to have been Aglaé Cadet Aglaé-Geneviève-Eurélie Cadet de Gassicourt, known as Aglaé Cadet (c. 1738 – 1801) was a French enameli ...

, who is believed to have been her mother's instructor. The couple had three other daughters, and also had six sons. Mme. Cadet, named a ''peintre de la reine'' in 1787, was best known for her work in miniature and enamel, though a single pastel, similar in composition to those produced by Weyler, is known. At the

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of 1791 she showed a portrait of Jacques Necker; she is also known to have produced an enamel of Maurice de Saxe, after a work by Jean-Étienne Liotard, in 1789. Five of her enamels were in the collection of the 5th Duke of Aumont.

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