Aug 28, 2025
La mère infortunée (The Unhappy Mother), 1810 by Marie-Françoise-Constance la Martinière Mayer (French, 1775--1821)
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La mère infortunée (The Unhappy Mother), 1810 by Marie-Françoise-Constance la Martinière Mayer (French, 1775--1821)
The Triumph of Bonaparte ― by Constance Mayer, after Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
Constance Mayer (French, 1774–1821) ) • Self-Portrait • c. 1801 • Bibliothèque Marmottan, Académie des beaux-arts
ab. 1817 Constance Mayer - Amable Tastu, née Sabine Casimire Amable Voiart, French writer and librettist
(Musée de La Cour d'Or de Metz)
What the well-dressed Regency woman wore on hot days
Henri-François Riesener (French, 1767-1828) • Portrait of Two Young Women • Unknown date
Constance Mayer (French, 1774-1821) • Self-portrait • 1801
A Muse (detail), by Constance Mayer
c. 1800s, Napoleonic era
According to the lot essay, Napoleon gave Mayer an apartment in Paris and bought some of her paintings. She studied under Joseph-Benoît Suvée and Jean-Baptiste Greuze. During the early 1800s, she joined the studio of Jacques-Louis David and collaborated with Pierre-Paul Prud'hon.
(Christie’s)
Constance Mayer Autoportrait ca.1801
Constance Mayer (French, 1775 - 1821): The Sleep of Venus (Le sommeil de Vénus) (1806) (via The Wallace Collection)