Marie-Guillemine Benoist

(1768–1826) French painter (1768–1826)

Marie-Guillemine Benoist (France, 1768–1826) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Marie-Guillemine Benoist belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.

Marie-Guillemine Benoist was born in Paris and died in Paris. The teachers included Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and Jacques-Louis David. Marie-Guillemine Benoist worked in Paris. Wikidata associates Marie-Guillemine Benoist with Neoclassicism.

One of the best-known works is ‘Portrait of Madeleine’. The works belong mainly to the genres history painting, genre painting, and portrait painting. The catalogue has 40 works by Marie-Guillemine Benoist with free images. The dated works span the years 1784–1812. Works by Marie-Guillemine Benoist are held by several collections, among them Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau, Département des peintures du Louvre, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, and Palazzo Mansi National Museum. Wikidata links 2 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Neoclassicism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Henri-François Riesener, Marie-Nicole Dumont, Gottfried Mind, John Crome, and Domingos Sequeira.

• Romanticism
• Portrait of Madeleine