
Aimée Duvivier (born 1766) was a French painter.
Duvivier was born either in
Saint-Domingue
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at the ''Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800''. or in Paris.
Her father, Pierre-Charles Duvivier (1716–1780), was the director of the
Savonnerie manufactory; her mother was Marie-Jeanne-Colombe Gromaire (died 1801). She was a pupil of
Jean-Baptiste Greuze and exhibited at the
Salon de la Jeunesse
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in 1786 and again in 1787. In 1791 she appeared at the
Paris Salon
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, where her self-portrait attracted favorable notices. A few paintings have survived, but none of the work she is known to have produced in
pastel
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is known to exist. Many details of Duvivier's biography remain obscure; even the year of her death is unclear, and has been given variously as 1824,
1834,
and 1852.
Gallery
File:Aimée Duvivier - Self-portrait (1790).jpg, ''Self-portrait'', 1790 ( Accorsi-Ometto Museum)
File:Aimee Duvivier - Armand Louis Le Boulanger, Marquis d’Acqueville.jpg, ''Armand Louis Le Boulanger, Marquis d’Acqueville'', c. 1791-1796 ( Blanton Museum of Art)
File:Aimée Duvivier - Soldat blessé (Wounded soldier).jpg, ''Wounded Soldier'', 1797 (Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Rochelle)
File:Portrait de Gottfried Abraham de Heimbach.jpg, ''Portrait of Gottfried Abraham de Heimbach'', 1801 (Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Rochelle)
References
1766 births
Year of death uncertain
18th-century French painters
18th-century French women artists
French women painters
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