Jeanne Bernard Dabos (1765–1842) was a French miniature painter. Born in

Lunéville Lunéville ( ; German, obsolete: ''Lünstadt'' ) is a commune in the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. It is a subprefecture of the department and lies on the river Meurthe at its confluence with the Vezouze. History Lun ...

, Dabos was the daughter of calligrapher , and studied with Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. A 1787 letter to the ''Mercure'' indicates that she submitted two drawings and one pastel to that year's

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; no further activity as a pastellist is recorded. In 1789 she exhibited miniatures at the salon in

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, and she showed 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 ...

in 1791 and from 1802 until 1835. She was influenced to attempt

genre painting Genre painting (or petit genre), a form of genre art, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows figures to whom no identity can be attached ...

by her husband,

Laurent Dabos Laurent Dabos (1761–1835) was a French painter of portraits and of historical and genre subjects. Life Dabos was born at Toulouse in 1761. He studied with François-André Vincent, François André Vincent, and first exhibited at the "Expositio ...

. Antoine Phelippeaux produced an

engraving Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a Burin (engraving), burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or Glass engraving, glass ...

after her portrait of

Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne (; ; née Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an archduchess of Austria, and was the penultimate child a ...

. Jeanne Dubois died in Paris.Portrait
in the ''Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800''.

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1765 births 1842 deaths 18th-century French painters 19th-century French painters 18th-century French women artists 19th-century French women artists French portrait painters French women painters Portrait miniaturists People from Lunéville Pupils of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard {{France-painter-18thC-stub