Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Revolutionary Painter

Guest post by Paris A. Spies-Gans, Harvard Society of Fellows  In July 2020, an oil painting appeared on the art market that had long been thought lost (fig. 1). A medium-sized canvas, 111 x 145 centimeters (3.6 x 4.7 feet), it depicted a sinuous woman in white,...

The Art Herstory Website Wins an SSEMWG Award!

Art Herstory is humbly grateful to the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender (SSEMWG), which has awarded its 2020 Digital Scholarship, New Media, and Art Award to the Art Herstory website. Praise from the SSEMWG Awards Committee The citation letter...