Portrait of a Woman: Art, Rivalry, and Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

by Bridget Quinn

Book Overview

Discover the story of Ad la de Labille-Guiard--a long-ignored artist and feminist of eighteenth-century France--in this imaginative and illuminating biography from an award-winning writer.

Summer in Paris, 1783. The Louvre steps, too hot and no breeze, the air electric with the heady anticipation of a coming storm: the year's Royal Salon. Bewigged and powdered Parisians mill amid pigeons, dogs, and detritus; food and flower sellers;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1797211870
• ISBN13: 9781797211879
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.5" x 9.3"