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Her grandmother, Marie-Jacobe van Merle Godefroid (?-Paris 1775), and and her husband, Ferdinand-Joseph Godefroid (Lille?-Paris 1741), moved to Paris as picture dealers. After she was widowed, Marie-Jacobe van Merle Godefroid invented a technique for lifting paintings off of old supports and placing them onto new ones and she received the title of “Painting Restorer to the King.” [FN] Marie-Éléonore Godefroid would

Germann, Jennifer. "Tracing Marie-Éléonore Godefroid: Women’s Artistic Networks in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 41 (2012): 55-84

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