Gabriel Briard
Illustration — Venus and Cupido, now at the Ema Gordon Klabin Cultural Foundation in Brazil. A landscape and portrait painter of some grace and facility of hand, the master of Demarne, and just one of the influential painting teachers of Mme. Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun.
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Gabriel Briard

Gabriel Briard · This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy · CC0
- Born
- 1729 · Paris.
- Died
- 1777 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- portrait
- Teachers
- Charles-Joseph Natoire
- Honours
- Prix de Rome
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Venus and Cupido, now at the Ema Gordon Klabin Cultural Foundation in Brazil. A landscape and portrait painter of some grace and facility of hand, the master of Demarne, and just one of the influential painting teachers of Mme. Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun.
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Born at Paris in 1729, died in Paris in 1777.
Training under Charles-Joseph Natoire is recorded. Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Jean-Louis de Marne and Rosalie Filleul are recorded as having studied under Gabriel Briard. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Work by Gabriel Briard is recorded in the collections of The Ema Klabin House Museum and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome.

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