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Coustou was part of a family of sculptors. He won the Prix de Rome in 1735 which entitled him to study in Rome at the prestigious French Academy 1736-39, and he went on to have a successful career.\r\n\r\nMadame Le Comte was the wife of a 'procureur au Chatelet' (official prosecutor for the judicial area of Chatelet, in Paris). She was also the mistress of the wealthy Academician (painter) Henri Watelet and they travelled to Italy together. Watelet's book on the Art of Painting (Art de Peindre), 1760, was illustrated by Marguerite Le Comte.  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She was the long-term mistress of the wealthy art theorist Claude-Henri Watelet, who taught her pastel painting and with whom she later travelled to Italy. She illustrated his <i>The Art of Painting</i>, published in 1760, and became a member of the Academies of Rome, Florence, Parma and Naples.\r\n\r\nFrance (Paris)\r\nBy Guillaume Coustou II\r\nBronze\r\nPurchased with funds from the John Webb Trust and the Bryan Bequest\r\n\r\nThe <i>Encyclopédie</i>, Vol. 6, 1756:\n\r\n<i>‘Woman: Men, according to the prerogatives of their sex and the force of their temperament, are naturally capable of all sorts of employment and activities; whereas women, due to the fragility of their sex and their natural delicacy, are excluded from many functions and incapable of certain activities.’</i>","date":{"text":"09/12/2015","earliest":"2015-12-09","latest":"2015-12-09"}}],"partNumbers":["A.1-1962"],"accessionNumberNum":"1","accessionNumberPrefix":"A","accessionYear":1962,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LW8241"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-11","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-24","availableToBook":false}}