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Jules Breton - Kergoat's forgiveness
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Yan' Dargent - The washerwomen of the night
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Louis Eugène Boudin - View of the port of Quimper
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Émile Renouf - The widow of the île de Sein
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Peter Paul Rubens - The martyrdom of Saint Lucia
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Nicolò dell'Abate  - The sleep of Venus
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Bartolo di Fredi - St. Paul
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François Boucher - The abduction of Proserpina
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Hubert Robert - Night party in the gardens of the Petit Trianon
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Adélaïde Labille-Guiard  - Portrait of a woman
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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot - View of Pierrefonds Castle
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Évariste-Vital Luminais - The escape of King Gradlon
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Théodore Chassériau - Portrait of a woman of Cabarrus
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Wilhelm List - The miracle of the roses
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Paul Gauguin - Pilgrimage saddlebag
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Maxime Maufra - View of the port of Pont-Aven
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Maurice Denis - Regatta in Perros-Guirec
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Paul Sérusier - The spell (The sacred grove)
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Félix Vallotton - Landscape with Trees (or Last Rays)
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Auguste Rodin - The Shadow
Jules Breton - Kergoat's forgiveness
Yan' Dargent - The washerwomen of the night
Louis Eugène Boudin - View of the port of Quimper
Émile Renouf - The widow of the île de Sein
Peter Paul Rubens - The martyrdom of Saint Lucia
Nicolò dell'Abate  - The sleep of Venus
Bartolo di Fredi - St. Paul
François Boucher - The abduction of Proserpina
Hubert Robert - Night party in the gardens of the Petit Trianon
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard  - Portrait of a woman
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot - View of Pierrefonds Castle
Évariste-Vital Luminais - The escape of King Gradlon
Théodore Chassériau - Portrait of a woman of Cabarrus
Wilhelm List - The miracle of the roses
Paul Gauguin - Pilgrimage saddlebag
Maxime Maufra - View of the port of Pont-Aven
Maurice Denis - Regatta in Perros-Guirec
Paul Sérusier - The spell (The sacred grove)
Félix Vallotton - Landscape with Trees (or Last Rays)
Auguste Rodin - The Shadow

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A woman of her time. The elegant woman, sitting at home, writes to her children on the eve of the French Revolution. The beautiful stranger stares at us, still absorbed in her task. Her clothing reflects a new fashion tending towards simplicity: a pearl white frock coat, a transparent veil on the neck and the charlotte on her natural powdered hair. She embodies, in this Age of Enlightenment, the modern, liberated and cultured woman of the living room. This portrait is made by a female artist, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. In this work he displays a prodigious ability to render materials: the reflections of the satin and the opacity of the wood of the desk covered with green felt contrast with a neutral background.

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard is one of the most famous portrait painters of the late 18th century. She is also a renowned miniaturist and pastelist after an apprenticeship with the great master Quentin de La Tour. She was admitted to the Académie de Saint-Luc, a painting academy, when she was just twenty. She then entered the Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture at the same time as her rival Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, to whom she is often compared. He acquired his fame thanks to the portraits he made first for the daughters of Louis XV and then, after the Revolution, for those of fourteen deputies of the National Assembly, including that of Robespierre. In addition, the artist fought to improve the status of painters by creating her own art school for girls.


© Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper.


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