#women painters
Happy birthday, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun! The prominent French portrait painter was born in Paris on April 16, 1755. Vigée Le Brun created a name for herself in Ancien Régime society by serving as the portrait painter to Marie Antoinette, seen above with her children. We have Madame Vigée-Lebrun, peintre des grandes dames du XVIIIe siécle (1919) in our collection. Ask a librarian to see anything in our special collections.
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Elizabeth Jane Gardner (1837-1922)
“La Confidence” (1880)
Oil on canvas mounted on aluminium
Located in the Georgia Art Museum, Athens, United States
Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau was among the first wave of Americans who sought art training in Paris after the Civil War.
Bouguereau arrived in Paris in 1864 and began studying contemporary and old-master paintings. While Paris beckoned all artists, women were still barred from studying at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts. Undaunted by these discriminatory practices, Bouguereau enrolled in private classes.
In 1868, she was one of the first American women to exhibit at the Paris Salon, along with Mary Cassatt. Bouguereau’s paintings were accepted into 25 Paris Salons; she also won a bronze medal at the 1889 Exposition Universelle. By the late 1870s, she was studying with William-Adolphe Bouguereau, whose use of rich color and portrayals of children and domestic scenes were widely acclaimed.Religious, historical, and mythological subject matter dominated Bouguereau’s early art production. She acknowledged that her work was strongly influenced by William-Adolphe (to whom she became engaged in 1879 but did not marry until 1896). She made her own way by producing works in a monumental style most often associated with male artists.
—National Museum of Women in the Arts
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Dorrit Black (Australian, 1891 - 1951): Corner of the garden (c. 1936) (via Art Gallery of South Australia)
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Vera Rockline (Russian/French, 1896-1934): Reclining nude with red necklace(viaMacDougall’s)
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Dorrit Black (Australian, 1891 - 1951): Coast road (1942) (via Art Gallery of South Australia)
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Anna Roslund (1891–1941), 1917,Gabriele Munter
https://www.wikiart.org/en/gabriele-munter/anna-roslund-1891-1941-1917
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