Louise Catherine Guéret

Louise Catherine Guéret
Born	(1755-05-17)17 May 1755 Paris
Died	19 November 1851(1851-11-19) (aged 96) Paris
Nationality	French
Relatives	Anne Guéret (sister)
Patron(s)	Henri-Pierre Danloux Jacques-Louis David

Louise Catherine Guéret (1755–1851), known as Mlle Guéret the Elder, was a French painter who was active at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. Louise Catherine and her sister Anne Guéret were orphaned as children but were adopted by the dramatist and librettist Michel-Jean Sedaine. He introduced them to the painters Henri-Pierre Danloux and Jacques-Louis David who gave them art lessons.[1]

Appearances at Salons

• 1798, by Citizens Guéret: no. 199, Two portraits, one of a Bust of a Woman, the other of Two Sisters, same number

Portraits of Louise Catherine Guéret

• Henri-Pierre Danloux, Portrait de Louise Catherine Guéret, sketch
• Jacques-Louis David, (attributed to), Portrait presumed to be Catherine Guéret, Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts, carries David's signature

References

1. Blanc, Olivier (2006). Portraits de femmes: artistes et modèles à l'époque de Marie-Antoinette (in French). Paris: Didier Carpenter. pp. 21, 65, 68, 85–87. ISBN 9782841674381.