Marie-Nicole Vestier (1767–1846) was a French painter.

Biography

A native of Paris, Vestier was the daughter of painter

Antoine Vestier Antoine Vestier (1740 – 24 December 1824) was a French miniaturist and painter of portraits, born at Avallon in Burgundy, who trained in the atelier of Jean-Baptiste Pierre. He showed his work at the Salon de la Correspondance, Paris, before b ...

. Known as a portraitist, in 1789 she married miniature painter François Dumont.Profile
at the ''Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800''. In 1785 a portrait of her by her father, in which she is depicted painting his portrait, 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 ...

; this painting is currently held in a private collection in Buenos Aires. She was barred from presenting her own work at the Salon for several years, but in 1794 showed her self-portrait ''The Artist at Her Occupations''. For many years it was assumed that Vestier was the artist who received much acclaim from critics for work which had been shown in 1785 at the

place Dauphine The Place Dauphine is a public square located near the western end of the Île de la Cité in the first arrondissement of Paris. It was initiated by Henry IV in 1607, the second of his projects for public squares in Paris, the first being the Pl ...

; more recent research has shown this to be Angélique-Louise Verrier instead. Another portrait of Vestier by her father is held by the

National Gallery of Scotland The Scottish National Gallery (formerly the National Gallery of Scotland) is the national art gallery of Scotland. It is located on The Mound in central Edinburgh, close to Princes Street. The building was designed in a neoclassical style by Wi ...

. A painting of Marie-Nicole was acquired by the

Musée de la Révolution française The Musée de la Révolution française (Museum of the French Revolution) is a departments of France, departmental museum in the French town of Vizille, south of Grenoble on the Route Napoléon. It is the only museum in the world dedicated to the ...

in 2017. This painting is his self-portrait presented at the

Salon de Paris 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 1793.

References

1767 births 1846 deaths French women painters 18th-century French painters 18th-century French women artists 19th-century French painters 19th-century French women artists French portrait painters Painters from Paris {{France-painter-18thC-stub