Peintres Femmes - 1780-1830 Naissance d'un combat

“Painters and women. In France, at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, their names were Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Marie Guilhelmine Benoist, Marguerite Gérard, but also Pauline Auzou Marie-Geneviève Bouliard, Rosalie Filleul de Besnes, Marie-Eléonore Godefrois, Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, Constance Mayer, Eulalie Morin, Marie-Elisabeth Lemoine, Marie-Victoire Lemoine, Adèle Romanée, Isabelle Pinson and Marie-Nicole Vestier. The history of art has immortalised some of these names, while many have fallen into obscurity. Yet, between 1780 and 1830, women painters were at the heart of a fervent debate, both societal and aesthetic, and present on the French art scene. “Chris Dercon