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Aimée Duvivier (born 1766) was a French painter.
Duvivier was born either in
at the ''Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800''. or in Paris. Her father, Pierre-Charles Duvivier (1716–1780), was the director of the Savonnerie manufactory; her mother was Marie-Jeanne-Colombe Gromaire (died 1801). She was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Greuze and exhibited at the
File:Aimée Duvivier - Self-portrait (1790).jpg, ''Self-portrait'', 1790 ( Accorsi-Ometto Museum)
File:Aimee Duvivier - Armand Louis Le Boulanger, Marquis d’Acqueville.jpg, ''Armand Louis Le Boulanger, Marquis d’Acqueville'', c. 1791-1796 ( Blanton Museum of Art)
File:Aimée Duvivier - Soldat blessé (Wounded soldier).jpg, ''Wounded Soldier'', 1797 (Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Rochelle)
File:Portrait de Gottfried Abraham de Heimbach.jpg, ''Portrait of Gottfried Abraham de Heimbach'', 1801 (Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Rochelle)
Aimée Duvivier (born 1766) was a French painter.
Duvivier was born either in Saint-Domingue
Saint-Domingue () was a French colony in the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the area of modern-day Haiti, from 1659 to 1804. The name derives from the Spanish main city in the island, Santo Domingo, which came to refer ...
Profileat the ''Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800''. or in Paris. Her father, Pierre-Charles Duvivier (1716–1780), was the director of the Savonnerie manufactory; her mother was Marie-Jeanne-Colombe Gromaire (died 1801). She was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Greuze and exhibited at the
Salon de la Jeunesse
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in 1786 and again in 1787. In 1791 she appeared at the Paris Salon
The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...
, where her self-portrait attracted favorable notices. A few paintings have survived, but none of the work she is known to have produced in 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 ...
is known to exist. Many details of Duvivier's biography remain obscure; even the year of her death is unclear, and has been given variously as 1824, 1834, and 1852.
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1766 births Year of death uncertain 18th-century French painters 18th-century French women artists French women painters {{France-painter-18thC-stub