Césarine Davin-Mirvault

François Joseph Lefebvre, Duke of Dantzig, Marshal of France, portrait from 1807, now at the Palace of Versailles

Césarine Henriette Flore Davin-Mirvault, a French painter of portraits and miniatures, whose maiden name was Mirvault, was born in Paris in 1773. She studied under Suvée, David, and Augustin, and afterwards established a school of drawing and painting, in which she had many pupils. Madame Davin died in Paris in 1844.

Portrait of Asker-Khan, Ambassador of Persia, from 1809

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "DAVIN, Césarine Henriette Flore". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.[[Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, volume 1|]]