Marie-Lambertine Coclers (1761 – after 1815) was a

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 ...

artist and engraver born in the

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. Born in

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, Coclers was the daughter of

Jean-Baptiste Coclers Jean-Baptiste Coclers (Maastricht, 14 October 1696 – Liège, 23 May 1772) was a Southern Netherlands, Southern Netherlandish portrait painter and a painter of floral still lifes and historical subjects. Life Jean-Baptiste Pierre Coclers was born ...

, who died during her childhood. Her instructor was her elder brother, Jean-Baptiste-Bernard Coclers; he made an etching of a young female artist at work which might depict his sister.Profile
in the ''Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800''. She came from a family with many artists. She worked in

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for a while and there she adapted the style of Adriaen van Ostade.

Gallery

Man aan de deur van een herberg, RP-P-1887-A-11752.jpg, Man at the door of an inn Twee vrouwen en een man voor een boerderij, RP-P-1885-A-9270.jpg, Two women and a man in front of a farmhouse Twee staande boerinnen, eentje met een kind op haar arm, RP-P-1883-A-7166.jpg, Two standing peasant women, one with a child on her arm

References

1761 births Year of death unknown Women painters Artists from the Holy Roman Empire Women engravers 18th-century engravers 19th-century painters 19th-century engravers 18th-century Dutch women artists Pastel artists 18th-century painters from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège Place of death unknown Women pastel artists 18th-century women painters 19th-century women painters {{engraver-stub