Françoise Basseporte

Who was Françoise Basseporte?

Madeleine Françoise Basseporte, was a French painter.

Basseporte was born and died in Paris. She became one of the pupils of Claude Aubriet thanks to her precocious talent for design. She replaced him as the Royal Painter after his death. The king Louis XV of France commissioned her to teach the princesses how to paint flowers.

She collaborated with the chemist Rouelle and the sculptor Larchevêque, and studied botany with Jussieu. She later taught anatomical illustration to Marie Marguerite Bihéron, who later became a wax modeler.

Basseporte also made some parchments about plants for Gaston d'Orléans.