Marie-Guillemine Benoist is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Marie-Guillemine Benoist as French painter (1768–1826).
Marie-Guillemine Benoist was born at Paris in 1768. Her recorded nationality is France.
Academies set the rules in this period - what counted as a serious subject, and who was allowed to train.
She worked as painter and artist.
Her recorded movement is neoclassicism.
Her best-known work is Portrait of Madeleine. A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in France shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Marie-Guillemine Benoist died in 1826, aged 58. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Portrait of Madeleine
- Movement: Neoclassicism
