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. In 1831 she showed a ''Portrait of Elizabeth of France'', after

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. She participated in the Salons of 1833, 1834, and 1835 as well, showing more copies of oil paintings at each. In 1834 she also exhibited a watercolor of a vegetable seller, which may have been an original piece. Her best-known work is a portrait of

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