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Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was one of the most prominent women artists of the end of the 18th century in Paris. Despite misogynistic policies for women’s artistic education, she enjoyed recognition for her portraits.

The Art Institute of Chicago has expanded its collection of French art with the acquisition of the prestigious Horvitz Collection, adding more than 2,000 works from the 18th to the 20th century.

This unparalleled gift will allow the museum to provide its visitors with a 300-year panorama of French art that is wholly unique outside of France.

The Art Institute of Chicago announced a transformative gift of 16th- to 19th-century French art from Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz.

This is a review of the book The Mirror and the Palette. Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women’s Self Portraits by Jennifer Higgie, published by Pegasus Books in 2021. 

Robilant+Voena is now showing an exhibition of works by Old Master, nineteenth- and twentieth-century women artists, alongside portraits of and works belonging to notable women in artistic, cultural or intellectual spheres.

As our clocks fall back an hour, and the sunset comes earlier every day, painters, sculptors, dancers, filmmakers, authors, performers.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection of over 1.5 million objects requires days, if not weeks, to take in.

The J. Paul Getty Museum presents Eighteenth-Century Pastels, an exhibition that explores the popularity of pastels across eighteenth-century Europe and showcases their striking physical properties.

When Labille-Guiard exhibited the portrait at the Paris Salon, it was the only woman in the series. And she was breastfeeding.

Christie’s France have hosted three successful sales this week which achieved a combined total of €9,717,375 including its first edition of the Women in Art sale dedicated to women artists which totaled more than €3 million and attracted 20% of new clients.

The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired the greatest pastel by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, one of the leading women artists in 18th-century Europe.

Throughout history, art has always played an important role in royal propaganda across Europe.

Maya Garabedian wraps up the Old Mistresses column with a final look at the Salons and the effect of the French Revolution on women artists of the time

Adelaïde Labille-Guiard might have been lesser known than her contemporary Vigée Le Brun, but her engagement for the inclusion and acceptance of women in the arts is a vital component of French art history