Marie-Victoire Jaquotot

France · 1772–1855

Marie-Victoire Jaquotot (maʁi vik.twaʁ ʒakɔto) was a 19th-century French painter. In 1816, with the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, Jaquotot earned the title “First Porcelain Painter to the King,” standing out among the many women artists who gained commissions, sales, titles and other forms of recognition from the new administration. == Personal life == Jaquotot was born in Paris in 1772 to a bourgeois family. Little is known of her childhood. On the 17 of June, 1794, Jaquotot married her painting instructor, Étienne-Charles Le Guay, an artisan working for Dihl & Guérard.

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