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 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-Victoire ...

and Marie-Victoire Lemoine, 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, who had also been her teacher. Her father, Louis Gabiou, was a wig maker. After the death of her first husband in ...

; 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 that consists of powdered pigment and a binder (material), binder. It can exist in a variety of forms, including a stick, a square, a pebble, and a pan of color, among other forms. The pigments used in pastels are ...

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, and it has additional salerooms in New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Milan, Geneva, Shan ...

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

Gallery

File:Marie-Elisabeth Lemoine - Presumed portrait of Francoise de Taulong.jpg, ''Presumed portrait of Francoise de Taulong'', 1784 File:Portrait of a young girl, half-length, in a white frilled dress and blue sash, holding a cherry branch.jpg, ''Portrait of a young girl holding a cherry branch'', 1787 File:Marie-Elisabeth Lemoine - Portrait of a girl in neoclassical dress at a column holding a laurel wreath.jpg, ''Portrait of a girl in neoclassical dress'', 1789 File:Marie-Elisabeth Lemoine - Portrait présumé d’Henri Gabiou, avec une charrette de jeux, jouant à faire des bulles.jpg, ''Presumed portrait of Henri Gabiou playing with soap bubbles,'' 1791

References

1760s births 1810s deaths Year of death uncertain 18th-century French painters 19th-century French painters 18th-century French women painters 19th-century French women painters {{France-painter-18thC-stub