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Mongez signed this canvas in tribute to her teacher: ‘Fme Mongez / Elève de Mr David.’”

Yusopov was not alone—in 1814, the Italian collector Gian Battista Sommariva purchased Mongez’s Mars and Venus, which she replicated decades later (@Museesdangers). /

It's #WomensHistoryMonth! I'm going to post one HISTORY PAINTING (narrative, literary, classical, historical, religious, etc. works) by a #WomanArtist every week.

This is a vital and overdue corrective, as a powerful narrative has long told us that premodern women artists were /

@ruth_millington @MuseeLouvre Or! What about including Benoist’s Portrait of Madeleine with the school of David (Benoist’s teacher)…

Happy #EarthDay! Here's Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont's (1790-1871) majestic Landscape with Gil Blas and Don Alphonso, 1820, @meadartmuseum @AmherstCollege, likely shown at the 1822 Louvre Salon—a canvas by one of the first #WomenArtists known to have painted outdoors, plein air.

#WomensHistoryMonth, #WomenArtists, Day 31.

For our FINAL(!) day, here is Maria Cosway’s (1760-1838) The Duchess of Devonshire as Cynthia from Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, @ChatsworthHouse. When Cosway exhibited this piece @royalacademy in 1782, it caused a SENSATION, as it /

@V_and_A Her “Gallery of Pictures in Worsted,” pictured here (also @V_and_A), remained there for forty years, until the year after her death. It held fifty-five pictures by 1810, and sixty-four by 1822.

We get an insight into her works’ vast appeal with /

Also importantly, @ARTnews & others, Benoist was NOT the first female history painter to show at the Paris Salon. Among other exs, in 1783 Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun exhibited her phenomenal Peace Bringing Back Abundance now @MuseeLouvre, which was also her academic reception piece!

#WomensHistoryMonth, #WomenArtists, Day 15.

How else did women learn to draw the nude, and thus qualify themselves to create artworks of the highest genres? Through private lessons, public (just non-Academic) classes, and anatomy courses, and by studying from drawings, prints, /

It’s #WomensHistoryMonth! 🧵

Every day in March, I’ll post about a #WomanArtist in history who did something unexpected.

This may seem like an odd time to be celebrating—but among the many lessons of the horrors we’re witnessing is the importance of history and having one’s /

I'm beyond thrilled to share that my book, "A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760-1830," is officially coming out next June with @PaulMellonCentr @yalepress.

#WomenArtists #ArtHerstory
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