![]() ![]() For the next 33 years, she travelled around Europe with a touring show from the collection. Grosholtz inherited Curtius's vast collection of wax models following his death in 1794. During the Revolution, she made models of many prominent victims. During the French Revolution, she was imprisoned for three months and awaiting execution, but was released after the intervention of an influential friend. At the age of 17, she became the art tutor to Madame Elizabeth, the sister of King Louis XVI of France, at the Palace of Versailles. Grosholtz created her first wax sculpture in 1777 of Voltaire. ![]() He moved to Paris and took his young apprentice, then only 6 years old, with him. Curtius taught Tussaud the art of wax modelling beginning when she was a child. Her mother worked for Philippe Curtius in Bern, Switzerland, who was a physician skilled in wax modeling. Marie Tussaud was born as Marie Grosholtz in 1761 in Strasbourg, France. ![]() Waxwork of Marie Tussaud (sculpting a waxwork) and her memorial plaque at the wax museum she founded in London ![]()
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