Madeleine Françoise Basseporte (1701-80), the botanical illustrator for the king

Convolvulus batatas, painting on vellum, Photo (C) Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle

The official painter to the Jardin du roi (the king’s botanical gardens in Paris) from 1741 to 1780.

More on the long, successful career of this exceptional artist from exhibition catalog, Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections (p. 55):

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