Ambroise-Marguerite Bardin
Ambroise-Marguerite Bardin was a French painter and pastellist.
Born in Charmentray, Bardin was the daughter of painter Jean Bardin, with whom she studied; her mother was Marie-Madeleine Le Gein. On February 11, 1793, she married Pierre-François Mollière, a drawing teacher and assistant of her father's, in Orléans, and with him would later establish a porcelain factory. It appears that she abandoned painting upon her marriage. She also practiced engraving during her career. One "Mlle Bardin soeur" advertised drawing materials in a 1791 edition of the Journal de Loiret, but evidence suggests this was the painter's aunt; she had no sisters. Bardin died in Paris. A pastel self-portrait in which she is painting a portrait of her father, dated 1791, is in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans.
