Based on a true story, this is the tale of Ad la de Labille-Guiard's fight to take her rightful place in the competitive art world of eighteenth-century Paris.
With a beautiful rival who's better connected and better trained than she is, Ad la de faces an uphill battle. Her love affair with her young instructor in oil painting gives rise to suspicions that he touches up her work, and her decision to make much-needed money by executing...