Angelica Kauffmann and Vigée Le Brun

and Pre-Revolutionary French Painting

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Readings:

bulletCarol Duncan, "Happy Mothers," in Feminism and Art History;
bulletThomas Crow, "The Enterprise of Women," in Stephen Eisenman, Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History, pp. 19-22.
bulletBoime, pp. 108-16

Key Images

bulletAngelica Kauffmann, Portrait of a Woman as a Vestal Virgin, c. 1780
bulletAngelica Kauffmann, The Artist in the Character of Design Listing to the Inspiration of Poetry, 1782
bullet Angelica Kauffmann,  (Virgil Writing his Own Epitaph) 1785
bullet Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, 1785
bullet Anne Vallayer-Coster, Vase of Flowers, n.d.
bulletAnne Vallayer-Coster, White Soup Bowl, 1771
bulletAnne Vallayer-Coster, Still Life with Tuft of Marine Plants, Shells and Corals, c. 1769
bullet Francoise Duparc, (1726-1778), Woman Knitting, n.d.
bulletElizabeth Vigee le Brun, Self-Portrait,
bulletElizabeth Vigee le Brun, Marie-Antoinette and her Children, 1788
bulletJean-Baptiste Greuze, The Beloved, Mother, 1765
bullet Adelaide Labille Guiard, Louise Eliz. de France 1788
bulletAdelaide Labille-Guiard, Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, 1785
bullet Adelaide Labille-Guiard, Portrait of Madame Adélaïde of France, about 1787
bullet Adelaide Labille-Guiard, Delightful Surprise, 1779 pastel

Vocabulary

bulletJean-Jacques Rousseau
bulletexemplum virtutis (examples of virtue)