Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: Artist, Friend, Teacher

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...

Victorine Meurent, More than a Model

Guest post by Drēma Drudge, author of the new novel Victorine Olympia, 1863, by Édouard Manet. Held at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris; source, Wikipedia. When I first encountered Victorine Meurent, it was her as Olympia in Édouard Manet’s iconic...