An exhibition as an excuse ... At the Musée du Luxembourg, the history of art largely written by men, including the American feminist Linda Nochlin (1931-2017), repairs its indelicacy: that of having neglected or passed over in silence so many women painters.
Between the end of the Ancien Régime and the Restoration for example, a period during which they were surprisingly numerous, and many were even recognized, their careers helped by the wives or sisters of Napoleon.
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Forty names and seventy of their works from public as well as private collections can be found on the walls.
If the amateur has at least heard of an Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (in 2015, a retrospective at the Grand Palais greeted this great portrait painter, in particular of Marie-Antoinette), of an Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (similarly an academic) or of 'a Marguerite Gérard (accomplice of Fragonard), it is not sure that this is the case for the others.
Les Pauline Auzou (who nevertheless held a
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