Georges-François-Marie Gabriel

François Hanriot by Gabriel, drawing now in the Carnavalet Museum

Georges-François-Marie Gabriel, a French miniature painter and designer, born in Paris in 1775, was a pupil of Naigeon and Regnault. Among his designs are those ordered by the French Government for the great work of the Institute on Egypt; and among his portraits is one of Madame de Maintenon, engraved by Mécou, which forms the frontispiece to her memoirs by Lafont d'Ausonne. The date of his death was on 1 January 1865 in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Gabriel, Georges François Marie". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.