Marie-Louise-Adélaïde Boizot (1744, Paris – 1800, Paris)[1][2] was a French engraver whose works have been on exhibition around the world.
Biography
Marie-Louise-Adélaïde Boizot was the second of the seven children born to the painter Antoine Boizot (1702–1782) and Jeanne Flottes (1715–1762). Her older brother was the designer and sculptor Louis-Simon Boizot (1743–1809). She hailed from an artistic family as her father's first wife, who died, was Marie Oudry (daughter of the engraver Marie-Marguerite Oudry (1688–1780) and the painter Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755)).[1][2]
She learned drawing under her father's direction before becoming a student of Jean-Jacques Flipart in engraving.
Works
Boizot's works have been housed and exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[3] the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.,[4] the Statens Museum for Kunst,[5][6] and the Victoria and Albert Museum.[7]
Expositions
- Marie-Antoinette, Paris, Grand Palais, March-June 2008.
Gallery
Louis XVI (1775)
Marie-Antoinette (1775)
Louis XVI (1781)
Marie-Antoinette (1781)
Denis-Francois Secousse
