Talk:Marie-Gabrielle Capet

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 10 September 2020 and 17 December 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Olmsimon. Peer reviewers: Tfrevele, Halb10.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 00:34, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Featured picture scheduled for POTD

Hello! This is to let editors know that the featured picture File:Marie-Gabrielle Capet - Self-Portrait - Google Art Project.jpg, which is used in this article, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for September 6, 2021. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2021-09-06. For the greater benefit of readers, any potential improvements or maintenance that could benefit the quality of this article should be done before its scheduled appearance on the Main Page. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:12, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

Marie-Gabrielle Capet (6 September 1761 – 1 November 1818) was a French Neoclassical painter. Until the French Revolution, the Royal Academy of Art in Paris was responsible for training artists and exhibiting artworks at the Salon, but limited the number of female students to four at a time. Unable to gain a place, she moved to Paris in 1781 to become a student of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, with whom she struck up a lifelong friendship. She specialised in painting portraits, her works including oil paintings, watercolours and miniatures. This oil-on-canvas self-portrait of Capet, dating from around 1783, is in the collection of the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo.

Painting credit: Marie-Gabrielle Capet

Recently featured:

• Orange-headed thrush
• Pauline Adams
• Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2