Ambroise-Marguerite Bardin

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Ambroise-Marguerite Bardin (1768–1842) was a French painter and pastellist. She was born in Charmentray and studied with her father, the painter Jean Bardin, while her mother was Marie-Madeleine Le Gein. On February 11, 1793, she married Pierre-François Mollière, a drawing teacher and her father's assistant, in Orléans; together they would later run a porcelain factory. It appears she stopped painting after her marriage, though she also practiced engraving. A 1791 advertisement in the Journal de Loiret for "Mlle Bardin soeur" is thought to refer to her aunt, as she had no sisters. Bardin died in Paris. A pastel self-portrait from 1791, in which she is painting a portrait of her father, is in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans.