Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond was done Adelaide Labille Guiard in 1785. It was done in Paris, France and the medium is oil on canvas. Adelaide Labille Guiard was born in 1749 and died in 1803. She was one of few to practice and master at miniatures, pastels and oil paintings. Due to male dominance in these practices, women were not accepted as pupils, due to society perception that women are not able to follow instructions as easily as men. Adelaide Labille Guiard painted Self-Portrait with Two Pupils
made it acceptable and even then it wasn’t particularly a career a parent wanted his or her son to partake in. However, if you were taken into an apprenticeship it meant that you had a chance at making ... ... middle of paper ... ...elaide Labille- Guiard, Self-portrait with Two Pupils. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2014. Esaak, Shelley. "Where Are All the Famous Women Artists." About.com Art History. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 May 2014 Eswingler. "Response to the Article, Why Have There Been No Great Women
Throughout Western history it was known to have this Patriarchal system in which the men are the head of the family, and community, during which these spheres between the male and female were divided, each having their own set of roles: the male in the public view and the women in the private view. The men worry about what is going on outside the home like politics, money, control over property while the women take care of what happens on the inside of the home doing things like taking care of the
Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun was one of the most successful painters of her time. Over the course of her life, spanning from 1755-1842, she painted over 900 works. She enjoyed painting self portraits, completing almost 40 throughout her career, in the style of artists she admired such as Peter Paul Rubens (Montfort). However, the majority of her paintings were beautiful, colorful, idealized likenesses of the aristocrats of her time, the most well known of these being the Queen of France Marie Antoinette