Discover the story of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard--a long-ignored artist and feminist of eighteenth-century France--in this imaginative and illuminating biography from an award-winning writer.
GORGEOUS ART REPRODUCTIONS THROUGHOUT: This biography features full-color images of artwork by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, her rumored rival Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, and.
She vividly evokes both and weaves a compelling narrative at the intersection of art, gender, and politics.
CREATIVE AND COMPELLING ART HISTORY BOOK: Bridget Quinn is an award-winning author and art historian who has spent years researching Adélaïde Labille-Guiard\'s work and life.
This tale of solidarity, self-belief, and true passion for painting is sure to inspire contemporary creatives and women today.
INSPIRING HISTORICAL NONFICTION: Despite numerous setbacks, Labille-Guiard built a legacy as an accomplished royal portraitist and a mentor to other young women artists of her era.
This is a compelling and inspiring look at an artist too long overlooked.
Quinn expertly blends close analyses of paintings with broader context about the era and inserts delicately fictionalized interpersonal scenes that fill the gaps in the historical record.
She offers a fascinating new perspective on the artist\'s feminism, her sexuality, and her vision of the world.
In this engaging biography, Bridget Quinn applies her insightful interpretation of art history to Labille-Guiard\'s life.
But Adélaïde Labille-Guiard\'s story lives on.
While she defied societal barriers to become a member of the exclusive Académie Royale and a mentor for other ambitious women painters, she left behind few writings, and her legacy was long overshadowed by celebrated portraitist and memoirist Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun.
Born in Paris in 1749, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard rose from shopkeeper\'s daughter to an official portraitist of the royal court--only to have her achievements reduced to ash by the French Revolution. . .
Enter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard .
Exhibiting at the Royal Salon was not for the faint of heart, and it was never intended for women.
Men and women of every estate (clergy, nobles, commoners) are united under art: to love it, to despise it, to gossip endlessly about it.
Bewigged and powdered Parisians mill amid pigeons, dogs, and detritus; food and flower sellers; pamphleteers and propagandists.
The Louvre steps, too hot and no breeze, the air electric with the heady anticipation of a coming storm: the year\'s Royal Salon.
Summer in Paris, 1783.
Discover the story of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard--a long-ignored artist and feminist of eighteenth-century France--in this imaginative and illuminating biography from an award-winning writer
