Academic portraiture · France

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

1749–1803 · Neoclassical portraitist and teacher of women

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The short version

Labille-Guiard campaigned to lift the Académie's four-woman quota and trained a generation of female students in her studio, painting them into her own canvases as evidence.

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