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Monday, May 9, 2011

Adelaide Labille



I have been thinking and trying to find out works by women visual artists recently. The painter is Adelaide Labille-Guiard, and the date of this painting is 1785. I love how the teacher stares back at us, an expression of defiance in her face. It is doubly significant that she has painted herself with two students, since most male painters in those days refused to accept female students.

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