Marie-Louise-Adélaïde Boizot (1744,élaï Paris – 1800, Paris) 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)).

Marie-Louise-Adélaïde Boizot

She learned drawing under her father's direction before becoming a student of Jean-Jacques Flipart in engraving.

Marie-Louise-Adélaïde Boizot

Works

Boizot's works have been housed and exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Statens Museum for Kunst, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Marie-Louise-Adélaïde Boizot

Expositions

Marie-Antoinette, Paris, Grand Palais, March-June 2008.

Gallery

References

1744 births

1800 deaths

Women engravers

Engravers from Paris

18th-century French women artists

18th-century French engravers