Join Dr. Melissa Hyde, Professor of Art History at the University of Florida, for a talk about what it was like for women working as professional artists in 18th-century France. At a time when very few women were admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, and those who were found constraints in the types of subjects they could study, many artists found success and even royal patronage. Learn more about the lives and careers of artists such as Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Anne Vallayer-Coster, and Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, as well as the many lesser-known women artists working in the years surrounding the French Revolution.
Dr. Hyde is a specialist in 18th- and 19th-century European art, with an emphasis on cultural history, gender studies, feminist theory, and the history of art criticism. She is the author of several publications in this area, most recently the forthcoming book Women in French Art: Rococo to Romanticism 1750–1830.
This talk is part of the Annual Fête.
Image: Anne Vallayer-Coster, Bouquet of Flowers in a Blue Porcelain Vase, 1776, oil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, Mrs. John B. O'Hara Fund and gift of Michael L. Rosenberg, 1998.52.FA