Françoise-Madeleine BASSEPORTE (1701-1780) Papillon Gouache - Lot 101

Françoise-Madeleine BASSEPORTE (1701-1780) Papillon Gouache on vellum signed lower right Dim: 25,5 x 37.4 cm (at sight) Françoise-Madeleine Basseporte, miniature painter and draughtswoman, began her training with Robert de Seri (1686-1737), painter of the Cardinal of Rohan. Later, she became close to Claude Aubriet (1665-1757), then painter of the king's vellum, and became his direct collaborator in 1731. In 1735, she obtained the intermediate status of "painter in mignature of his Majesty". She collaborated with Boucher and Oudry in 1739 to the Spectacle de la nature of the Abbé Pluche by several gouaches. When Aubriet died, she succeeded him and became "painter of the King's Garden". At the same time, she illustrated for the Royal Academy of Sciences the articles of the academicians published in the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences. She also worked for the Marquise de Pompadour and taught the rudiments of flower painting to the king's daughters. EVE