Élisabeth Sophie Chéron

Élisabeth Sophie Chéron (3 October 1648, Paris – 3 September 1711, Paris) is remembered today primarily as a French painter, but she was a renaissance woman, acclaimed in her lifetime as a gifted poet, musician, artist, and academician. She was trained by her artist father, while still a child, in the arts of enamelling and miniature painting. Her father was a rigid Calv...