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Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, born Antoinette Cécile Hortense Viel (14 December 1784 – 2 January 1845) was a French painter, mainly of genre and historical scenes.

Antoinette Cécile Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, A Nude Model in an Artist’s Studio

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Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, born Antoinette Cécile Hortense Viel (14 December 1784 – 2 January 1845) was a French painter, mainly of genre and historical scenes.

Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, Young Woman Reading in an Interior

1813, Napoleonic era

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Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, born Antoinette Cécile Hortense Viel (14 December 1784 – 2 January 1845) was a French painter, mainly of genre and historical scenes.

Kissing the feet of the statue of St Peter in Rome, by Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, 1812.

French painter, 1784-1845.

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The Pontifical Swiss Guard (also Papal Swiss Guard or simply Swiss Guard; Latin: Pontificia Cohors Helvetica; Italian: Guardia Svizzera Pontificia; German: Päpstliche Schweizergarde; French: Garde suisse pontificale; Romansh: Guardia svizra papala) is an armed force and honour guard unit maintained by the Holy See that protects the Pope and the Apostolic Palace within the territory of the Vatican City State. Established in 1506 under Pope Julius II, the Pontifical Swiss Guard is among the oldest military units in continuous operation.

The dress uniform is of blue, red, orange and yellow with a distinctly Renaissance appearance. The Swiss Guard are equipped with traditional ceremonial weapons, such as the halberd, as well as with modern firearms. Since the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in 1981, a much stronger emphasis has been placed on the Guard's non-ceremonial roles and has seen enhanced training in unarmed combat and small arms.

Recruits to the guards must be unmarried Swiss Catholic males between 19 and 30 years of age who have completed basic training with the Swiss Armed Forces. As of 2024 there were 135 members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard.

The unit's security mission is complemented by the Corps of Gendarmerie of Vatican City.

Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, born Antoinette Cécile Hortense Viel (14 December 1784 – 2 January 1845) was a French painter, mainly of genre and historical scenes.

Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot (French, 1785 - 1845): A Swiss guard, full-length (via Sotheby’s)

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Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, born Antoinette Cécile Hortense Viel (14 December 1784 – 2 January 1845) was a French painter, mainly of genre and historical scenes.

The Good Daughter (1820) by Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot

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Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, born Antoinette Cécile Hortense Viel (14 December 1784 – 2 January 1845) was a French painter, mainly of genre and historical scenes.

Antoine Cecile Hortense Haudebourt Lescot (b.1784 - d.1845), ‘Young Woman Seated in the Shade of a Tree’, c.1830, French, oil on canvas, currently in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, USA.

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Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, born Antoinette Cécile Hortense Viel (14 December 1784 – 2 January 1845) was a French painter, mainly of genre and historical scenes.

Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot   Le jeu de la main chaude    1812

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Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, born Antoinette Cécile Hortense Viel (14 December 1784 – 2 January 1845) was a French painter, mainly of genre and historical scenes.

Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot (French, 1784-1845)

Une jeune Italienne s’abritant du soleil sous son tambour de basque

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Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, born Antoinette Cécile Hortense Viel (14 December 1784 – 2 January 1845) was a French painter, mainly of genre and historical scenes.

Two Merveilleuses, by Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot.

French painter, 1784-1845.

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Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, born Antoinette Cécile Hortense Viel (14 December 1784 – 2 January 1845) was a French painter, mainly of genre and historical scenes.

She was born in Paris to Jean-Baptiste Viel, a perfumer, and his wife Cécile, née Lejeune. Her mother became a widow two years later and remarried; to Jean-Louis Lescot, a pharmacist.

At the age of seven, she began her studies with Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, a popular history painter and family friend. When he was appointed director of the French Academy in Rome in 1807, she and several other artists followed him. They arrived in 1808, and she remained until 1816. There she depicted the customs and costumes of Italian peasants in great detail, which influenced much of her later work. During this time, she began signing her works with the name "Lescot".

Beginning in 1811, she sent her paintings to Paris, to be exhibited at the Salon. Her work attracted the attention of the Duchess of Berry who, in 1816, appointed her to be her personal painter. In 1820, she married the architect Louis-Pierre Haudebourt (1788-1849), with whom she had a son. Their home became a gathering place for the artistic and literary elite. As a teacher, Haudebourt-Lescot's pupils included the painters Herminie Déhérain[4] and Marie-Ernestine Serret.

She died in Paris on 2 January 1845. Her works may be seen at the Louvre Museum, the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, and at the Musée Jean de La Fontaine.

Oil Painting, 1800, French.

By Antoinette Cécile Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot.

Portraying of the Artist in a Grey Dress.

Musée du Louvre.

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Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, born Antoinette Cécile Hortense Viel (14 December 1784 – 2 January 1845) was a French painter, mainly of genre and historical scenes.

Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot (French, 1784-1845)

Vendeur de reliques à Rome

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Maria Anna Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi Levoy (French: Marie Anne Elisa Bonaparte; 3 January 1777 – 7 August 1820), better known as Elisa Bonaparte, was an imperial French princess and sister of Napoleon Bonaparte. She was Princess of Lucca and Piombino (1805-1814), Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1809-1814) and Countess of Compignano by appointment of her brother.

She was the fourth surviving child and eldest surviving daughter of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino. A younger sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, she had elder brothers Joseph and Lucien, and younger siblings Louis, Pauline, Caroline and Jerome.

As Princess of Lucca and Piombino, then Grand Duchess of Tuscany, she became Napoleon's only sister to possess political power. Their relations were sometimes strained due to her sharp tongue. Highly interested in the arts, particularly the theatre, she encouraged them in the territories over which she ruled.

Marie-Guillemine Benoist, born Marie-Guillemine Laville-Leroux (December 18, 1768 – October 8, 1826), was a French neoclassical, historical, and genre painter.

Marie Guillemine Benoist, Elisa Bonaparte, 1805

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Paula Maria Bonaparte Leclerc Borghese (French: Pauline Marie Bonaparte; 20 October 1780 – 9 June 1825), better known as Pauline Bonaparte, was an imperial French princess, the first sovereign Duchess of Guastalla, and the princess consort of Sulmona and Rossano. She was the sixth child of Letizia Ramolino and Carlo Buonaparte, Corsica's representative to the court of King Louis XVI of France. Her elder brother, Napoleon, was the first emperor of the French. She married Charles Leclerc, a French general, a union ended by his death in 1802.

Later, Pauline married Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona. Her only child, Dermide Leclerc, born from her first marriage, died in childhood. She was the only Bonaparte sibling to visit Napoleon in exile on his principality, Elba.

Marie-Guillemine Benoist, born Marie-Guillemine Laville-Leroux (December 18, 1768 – October 8, 1826), was a French neoclassical, historical, and genre painter.

Marie-Guillemine Benoist (French, 1768 - 1826) Pauline Bonaparte, princesse Borghese (1780-1825), 1808 Musée national du château de Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau, France

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Marie-Guillemine Benoist, born Marie-Guillemine Laville-Leroux (December 18, 1768 – October 8, 1826), was a French neoclassical, historical, and genre painter.

In 1791, Benoist exhibited for the first time at the Paris Salon, displaying her mythology-inspired picture Psyché faisant ses adieux à sa famille. Another of her paintings of this period, L'Innocence entre la vertu et le vice, is similarly mythological and reveals her feminist interests—in this picture, vice is represented by a man, although it was traditionally represented by a woman.

Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Innocence between Vice and Virtue (1790)

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Marie-Guillemine Benoist, born Marie-Guillemine Laville-Leroux (December 18, 1768 – October 8, 1826), was a French neoclassical, historical, and genre painter.

Self-portrait Copying David's Belisarius [fr], 1786 (Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe) via Wikipedia

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Felice Pasquale Baciocchi (18 May 1762 – 27 April 1841) was a French army officer. He married Elisa Bonaparte, a sister of Napoleon.

Marie-Guillemine Benoist, born Marie-Guillemine Laville-Leroux (December 18, 1768 – October 8, 1826), was a French neoclassical, historical, and genre painter.

Felice Baciocchi by Marie-Guillemine Benoist, 1806

He is wearing full court attire of the First French Empire

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The Consulate (French: Le Consulat) was the top-level government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799 until the start of the French Empire on 18 May 1804. By extension, the term The Consulate also refers to this period of French history.

During this period, Napoleon Bonaparte, as First Consul (Premier consul), established himself as the head of a more autocratic and centralised republican government in France while not declaring himself sole ruler. Due to the long-lasting institutions established during these years, Robert B. Holtman has called the consulate "one of the most important periods of all French history." By the end of this period, Bonaparte had engineered an authoritarian personal rule now viewed as a military dictatorship.

Marie-Guillemine Benoist, born Marie-Guillemine Laville-Leroux (December 18, 1768 – October 8, 1826), was a French neoclassical, historical, and genre painter.

Portrait of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte by Marie-Guillemine Benoist