Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin (1666 in Paris, France – 1751 in Padua, Italy) was a French numismatist, writer and painter during the 17th century.

She was the granddaughter of medical doctor and letter writer Guy Patin, daughter of medical doctor and numismatist Charles Patin and moralist writer Madeleine Patin, as well as sister of the writer and art critic Charlotte-Catherine Patin. Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin published a Latin work on Phoenician numismatics: De Phœnice in numismate imperatoris Caracallæ expressa epistola (Venise, 1683, in-4°).

Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin

Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin was made, as were her sister and parents, a member of the Galileiana Academy of Arts and Science under the name "Diserte". At this academy, she gave the panegyric lecture on Louis XIV in 1685.

Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin

See also

Numismatics

17th-century French literature

References

1666 births

1751 deaths

17th-century French painters

18th-century French painters

17th-century French writers

17th-century French women writers

18th-century French writers

18th-century French women writers

French numismatists

Women numismatists

French women painters

Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin