Georges-François-Marie Gabriel, a French miniature painter and designer, born in Paris in 1775, was a pupil of Naigeon and Regnault. Among his designs are those ordered by the French Government for the great work of the

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on Egypt; and among his portraits is one of

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, engraved by Mécou, which forms the frontispiece to her memoirs by Lafont d'Ausonne. Gabriel died January 1, 1865, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.

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* * 1775 births 1865 deaths 18th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French painters French portrait miniaturists Painters from Paris 19th-century French male artists 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub