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French painter Anne Vallayer-Coster edit

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Original – Painting by Alexander Roslin (1718–1793), though sometimes it was considered as a self-portrait too. But it is not quite made in her style, and documentation points towards Roslin. Vallayer-Coster was admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1770, a rare achievement for a woman painter. Most painters were male that time in the Academy.
Reason
Good scan, good artist. The portrait is of Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744 – 1818), 18th-century French painter; one of the rare and successful woman artists in the art-history, who according to our article: " achieved fame and recognition very early in her career". She was known for her still life paintings.
Articles in which this image appears
Anne Vallayer-Coster, Alexander Roslin
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Artists and writers
Creator
Alexander Roslin

Promoted File:The artist Anne Vallayer-Coster.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 17:38, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]