Marie-Thérèse Reboul

Marie-Thérèse Reboul (26 February 1735—4 January 1806),[1][2] commonly called Madame Vien,[3] was a French painter and engraver of natural history subjects, still lifes, and flowers.

In 1757, Marie-Thérèse Reboul married the painter Joseph-Marie Vien, who was nineteen years older.

[2][3] Nineteenth-century sources state that she was taught by her husband,[4][5] but Joseph-Marie Vien's autobiography does not mention it.

[7] At the time, Reboul-Vien was described as "a painter of miniatures and gouaches specializing in flowers, butterflies and birds.

[4] At the Salon of 1767, Denis Diderot praised A Crested Hen Watching over Her Chicks as a "very handsome small painting" that was "painted with great vigor and coloristic truth ... Everything's right, including the bits of straw scattered around the hen.

Two Pigeons on a Tree Branch , 1762