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Clare Bucknell: Revolutionary Portraiture, 2 March 2023
A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760-1830
by Paris Spies-Gans.
Paul Mellon Centre, 384 pp., £45, June 2022,978 1 913107 29 1 Show More
by Paris Spies-Gans.
Paul Mellon Centre, 384 pp., £45, June 2022,
“... At the Paris Salon of 1822, the young French artist Adrienne-Marie-Louise Grandpierre-Deverzy exhibited The Studio of Abel de Pujol, a painting of her teacher’s workshop. More than a dozen female trainees are shown going about their business. A little group looks over de Pujol’s shoulder as he critiques a sketch; others make copies from paintings selected for their improving moral content; in the background, two women are sketching from a ringleted, clothed female model, concentrating on getting the folds of the drapery right ... ”
