Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, "Portrait of Madame Charles Mitoire with Her Children" (1783), pastel on three sheets of blue paper, mounted on canvas, 38 ¾ x 31 1/8 inches (image courtesy the J. Paul Getty ...

For a coterie of early modern women artists spanning the 15th to 18th centuries, the past decade has marked a whirlwind of rediscovery. A few years after art historian Linda Nochlin famously asked ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week in Paris, Christie’s auction “Women in Art,” the house’s first-ever sale dedicated solely to female artists, attracted a ...

Editor’s Note: The following text has been excerpted with permission and adapted from Portrait of a Woman: Art, Rivalry, and Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard by Bridget Quinn, ...

This week, a historically significant and previously unaccounted for self-portrait of the pioneering 18th-century artist Adélaïde Labille-Guiard turned up in a sale at Tajan auction house, in Paris.

In a world where women are seen but rarely heard, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard refuses to be silenced. The daughter of Parisian shopkeepers, Adélaïde dreams not of marriage or titles but of earning a place ...

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6.6 x 6.6 cm. (2.6 x 2.6 in.) ...