JEAN BAPTISTE PAULIN CALLED PAULIN GUERIN (1783-1855)
portrait of Mademoiselle Mante
Original canvas and frame
H : 81 cm W : 65 cm
Number 2214 on the stretcher on the back. Mark of the canvas dealer
Belot, rue de l'arbre sec n°5.
Old restorations
Exhibition : Salon des Artistes Vivants, Paris, 1827, n° 518 :
"Portrait of Mlle M.".
Expert : Cabinet Turquin
Louise Charlotte Théophile Delphine Escoffié, known as Mlle Mante,
entered in 1822 as an actress at the Comédie-Française. She
She became a member of the institution the following year. The portrait of
of the Marquise d'Audiffret by Paulin Guérin was exhibited at the Salon
of 1827. In this same exhibition Guérin presents the portrait of
three other aristocrats. They are the countess of
Marcellus, daughter of the director of the Royal Museums Auguste de
Forbin, of the countess Dupont de l'Étang and of the marquise
d'Audiffret. The latter practiced painting as a dilettante
dilettante thanks to her training in the workshop of Hortense
Haudebourt-Lescot's studio in the 1830s.
We would like to thank Mr. Paul Menoux for his help in
the description of this painting.
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