Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou, née Lemoine (c. 1761 – 30 May 1811) was a French painter. Gabiou was the sister of painters

Marie-Denise Villers Marie-Denise Villers (''née'' Lemoine; 1774 – 19 August 1821) was a French Painting, painter who specialized in portraits. Life Marie-Denise Lemoine was born in Paris to Charles Lemoine and Marie-Anne Rouselle. Two of her three sisters, Marie ...

and

Marie-Victoire Lemoine Marie-Victoire Lemoine (; 1754 – 2 December 1820) was a French classicist painter. Life Born in Paris, Marie-Victoire Lemoine was the eldest daughter of four sisters to Charles Lemoine and Marie-Anne Rousselle. Her sisters, Marie-Denise Ville ...

, and was the sister-in-law and cousin of

Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet (née Gabiou; died 18 April 1832) was a French painter and the wife of the sculptor Antoine Denis Chaudet. After the death of her first husband in 1810, she married, secondly, in 1812, to Pierre-Arsène Denis Husson, a ...

; her husband, whom she married in 1789, was Chaudet's brother Jean-Frédéric Gabiou. Her work is usually signed "Eli Lemoine" or "Elith Lemoine", and her name is easily mistaken for that of Élisabeth Lemoine, née Bouchet. She has been described as 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 ...

list, though no pastels are known to exist by her hand. A supposed self-portrait appeared at auction through

Christie's Christie's is a British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie (auctioneer), James Christie. Its main premises are on King Street, St James's in London, at Rockefeller Center in New York City and at Alexandra House in Hong Kong. It is ...

in 2010, realizing a price of €17,500.

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1761 births 1810s deaths Year of death uncertain 18th-century French painters 18th-century French women artists 19th-century French painters 19th-century French women artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub