by wpengine | Dec 1, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Suzanne Singletary, Professor and Associate Dean, Thomas Jefferson University On view at Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation until January 9, Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, and Rebel is the first major retrospective in North America of the...
by wpengine | Nov 13, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Tori Champion, PhD Candidate, University of St. Andrews Alexander Roslin, Madame Marie-Thérèse Reboul Vien, 1757. Oil on canvas. Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon. It was a mid-winter’s gathering of friends in Paris, late in...
by wpengine | Sep 9, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Mary Creed, The Morgan Library & Museum Fig. 1. Madeleine Françoise Basseporte, Portrait of a Young Woman, 1727. Pastel. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Painter of the King’s Garden This week—September 6, specifically—marks the 241st anniversary of the...
by wpengine | Apr 11, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Jessica L. Fripp, Texas Christian University On the value of women In 1876, the heirs of the French painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard donated two works, the Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie-Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de...
by wpengine | Dec 21, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Kelsey Brosnan, PhD in Art History, Rutgers University On December 12, 2020, the Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened its European Paintings galleries, largely closed to the public for the past two years. One of the newly reinstalled spaces...