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Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868), Marie Denise Villers
Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868), 1801

Marie Denise Villers

1774–1821 · 1 work

A young woman pauses with a drawing board in her lap. Villers’s portrait places her beside a bright window, creating an encounter between the woman at work and the viewer.

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Original museum reproductions, with source records on every artwork page.

Artist information: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Public-domain art. An imagined museum; no museum affiliation.