Antoinette-Cécile-Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot (14 December 1784 – 2 January 1845) was a French

France

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 painter, mainly of genre scenes. A native of Paris

Paris

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, she began studies with Guillaume Lethière, a popular history painter

History painting

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 and family friend, at the age of seven; when he was appointed director of the French Academy in Rome

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 in 1807, she followed him, arriving in 1808 and remaining there until 1816. There she depicted the customs

Norm (sociology)

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 and costume

Costume

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s of Italian

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 peasant

Peasant

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s in great detail. Such foreign experience was rare for a woman artist, and influenced much of her work. She regularly exhibited her work at the Paris Salon

Paris Salon

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, showing some 110 paintings there between 1811 and 1840.

Haudebourt-Lescot married the architect

Architect

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 Louis-Pierre Haudebourt in 1820, and died in Paris in 1845.