![Marguerite Gérard - The Bad News [1894] by Gandalf's Gallery](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7340/11364497463_eb8c3e3597.jpg)
Marguerite Gérard (Grasse, January 28, 1761 - Paris, May 18, 1837) was a French painter and etcher. At 8 years-old she became the sister-in-law of Jean-Honre Fragonard, and when she was 14, she went to live with him. Gérard became Fragonard's pupil in the mid-1770s and studied painting, drawing and printmaking under his tutelage. She appears to have executed five etchings in 1778 in collaboration with the master.
[Musée du Louvre, Paris - Oil on canvas, 64 x 51 cm]