Ambroise-Marguerite Bardin (1768–1842) was a French painter and pastellist.
Born in Charmentray, Bardin was the daughter of painter Jean Bardin (1732–1809), with whom she studied; her mother was Marie-Madeleine Le Gein (c.1742–1805). 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.Profile at the Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800. 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.
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