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| Anonymous French Artist Eye of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore surrounded by Forget-Me-Nots ca. 1810 miniature mounted on snuff box Musée du Louvre |
"Born in 1786 at Douai in Flanders, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore has been forgotten, rediscovered, and forgotten again. Shortly after her death, Jules Janin remarked that she had already been forgotten. "Forgotten by whom, I ask you?" said Baudelaire. "By those who, feeling nothing, remember nothing." He said, "No poet was ever more natural; none was ever less artificial. No one has been able to imitate that charm, for it is entirely original and naive."
"Desbordes-Valmore would look back at her childhood as idyllic. The people were attached to simple things and led uneventful lives. There were four children. Their father painted cabinets and made church ornaments. But Joseph Desbordes lost his clientele in the Revolution – the Terror came even to Douai and the church porch was destroyed. The Desbordes family was reduced to poverty."
– from a profile by Louis Simpson in The New Criterion (1995)
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| Anonymous French Artist Interior of a School for Girls early 19th century gouache on paper Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous French Artist Interior of a School for Girls (Drawing Class) early 19th century gouache on paper Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous French Artist Cascade at St Cloud 19th century watercolor and gouache on paper Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous French Artist Baptism of Christ 18th century enamel miniature Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous French Artist after Antoine Coypel Cupid and Psyche 18th century enamel miniature Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous French Artist Seated Nude ca. 1830 watercolor on ivory Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous French Artist Scene in a Park 18th century gouache on paper Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous French Artist Portrait of a Young Woman 18th century watercolor on ivory Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous French Artist Portrait of Louis XV as a Child ca. 1715 enamel miniature Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous French Artist Young Woman with Fruit ca. 1750 enamel miniature Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous French Artist Roman Emperor giving Audience 18th century gouache on paper Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous French Artist The Resurrection 17th century gouache on vellum Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous French Artist after Julie Le Brun Venus and Cupid 18th century enamel miniature Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous French Artist Perseus beheading Medusa 17th century watercolor on ivory Musée du Louvre |