Marie-Geneviève Bouliard (French, 1763-1825) Bust-length portrait of a man wearing a blue frock coat Canvas. Signed lower right. Height 55 Width 46 cm. (small accident) Gilded wood and stucco frame decorated with friezes of pearls and water leaves (Height 61.5 Width 52.5 cm). Provenance: Paris collection. Marie-Geneviève Bouliard. A portrait of a man in a blue frock coat. Signed. In a gilded wood and stucco frame. Marie-Geneviève Bouliard was born in Paris in 1763. An only child from an affluent family, she trained as a painter in the studio of Joseph Siffred Duplessis. Madame Bouliard was one of the few women admitted to the Académie royale de peinture, and was therefore allowed to exhibit her work at the Salons. She was very prolific during the revolutionary period, making a name for herself among the portraitists of her time. Marie Geneviève Bouliard follows in the footsteps of the famous portraitist Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, who opened the way for women artists at the end of the 18th century. Although little is known about her life, we do know that her work appealed to critics, and she was awarded the Prix d'Encouragement at the Salon of 1791.