Anne Bricollet
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Anne Bricollet was a French painter and
pastel A pastel () is an art medium in a variety of forms including a stick, a square a pebble or a pan of color; though other forms are possible; they consist of powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are similar to those use ...
list active between 1786 and 1797. Bricollet is known only from two works. The earliest is a '' Pietà'' in oil, signed and dated 1785 and located in
Bourg-en-Bresse Cathedral Bourg-en-Bresse Cathedral (''Concathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation de Bourg-en-Bresse'') is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Bourg-en-Bresse, France. This church was previously the collegiate church of Notre-Dame-du-Bourg, which in 1992 was ra ...
. The other is a pastel portrait of Marie-Claude-Clémence Martin, later the wife of deputy Louis Sirand; this piece is signed on the back as being by "Mlle Bricollet", and described as having been finished on April 23, 1797. Nothing further is recorded of Bricollet, but a woman named Anne-Henriette Bricollet is known to have died in Bourg-en-Bresse in 1833.Profile
at the ''Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800''.


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French women painters 18th-century French painters 18th-century French women artists French pastel artists People from Bourg-en-Bresse Year of death unknown French women pastel artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub