Marie-Denise Villers
(1774 - August 19, 1821) was a French painter, who specialized in portraits. She was born Marie-Denise Lemoine in Paris. She came from an artistic family, and her sisters Marie-Victoire Lemoine and Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou were also accomplished artists. In 1794, Marie-Denise married an architecture student, Michel-Jean-Maximilien Villers.
Villers was a student of the French painter Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson. She was first exhibited at the Paris Salon of the Year VII (1799). Villers' most famous painting, Young Woman Drawing,
ID: 73444 Une etude de femme d'apres nature dit aussi Portrait de Madame Soustras Une etude de femme d'apres nature dit aussi Portrait de Madame Soustras
Oil on canvas
146 X 114 cm (57.48 X 44.88 in)
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