Marie Jeanne Clemens (''née'' Crévoisier, 16 November 1755 – 20 March 1791) was a French-Danish painter, engraver and pastel artist. She was the daughter of the clock maker Claude Joseph Crévoisier and his wife Marie Thérèse (Blot) in Paris. From 1773 she was the student and from 1781 the spouse of the Danish artist

Johan Frederik Clemens Johan Frederik Clemens (29 November 1749 – 5 November 1831) was a Pomeranian- Danish printmaker in etching. Early life and education Clemens was born in Gollnow (now Goleniów) near Stettin (now Szczecin) in Pomerania, to a poor Saxon weaver, J ...

, with whom she moved to Denmark after their wedding. She was inducted as one of its first female members to the Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1782. In 1788, she moved to Berlin, where she died of consumption (

tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by '' Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, i ...

) in 1791. She was also a member of the Berlin Academy.

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