Marie-Cunégonde Huin

Portrait of Marie-Cunégonde Huin by her father, Charles-Alexis Huin. Marie-Cunégonde Huin (1767–1840) was a French miniaturist and painter active during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. She studied under Jacques-Louis David and exhibited her works at the Paris Salons from 1796.

Life Marie-Cunégonde-Odile Huin was born on 4 July 1767 in Strasbourg, the daughter of Charles-Alexis Huin, a pastellist and painter, and Marie-Odile Dorlan. In 1783, the family relocated to Paris, renting a house on the rue d’Angivillers not far from the Louvre.

Huin may have received her first artistic training from her father. After his death in 1786 she studied painting under the Neoclassical master Jacques-Louis David David wrote to Huin's mother that "there is no question of a fee; it is a favour I shall request of my students, and I'm certain they will do everything for me".

Around 1805, Huin married Pierre-Antoine Clerc, a lieutenant colonel in the French military engineering corps and a skilled draughtsman. The couple had three daughters, all baptised at Saint-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris at a relatively advanced age.

Career Huin worked professionally as a miniaturist under the names Citoyenne Huin and Mademoiselle Huin.

Huin established her miniature studio in the Marais district of Paris, on the rue Meslay, an address she shared with her father and her uncle Nicolas Huin, a successful glazer. 1799 – Figure d'étude (Study figure); Portrait d'homme (Portrait of a man)

1801 – Six portraits en miniature (Six miniature portraits)