Adélaïde Labille-Guiard ( née Labille; 11 April 1749 - 24 April 1803), also known as Adélaïde Labille-Guiard des Vertus, was a French miniaturist and portrait painter. She was an advocate for women to receive the same opportunities as men to become great painters. Adélaïde Labille, the daughter of a Paris shopkeeper, was married at the age of twenty to Louis Nicolas Guiard, a clerk from whom she later separated. She began her studies with a miniaturist and then joined the Paris guild, the Académie de Saint-Luc.
Adélaïde LabilleGuiard SelfPortrait with Two Pupils (1785) Artsy
A lifelong champion of women's rights, Labille-Guiard worked toward reforming the Academy's policies toward women. Unlike Vigée-LeBrun, she supported the French Revolution and remained in Paris during this tumultuous era, winning new patrons and creating portraits of several deputies of the National Assembly. Labille-Guiard was often described as a bitter rival of the best-known woman painter of the time, Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun, but this rivalry was in fact the invention of male artists and critics threatened by their female competitors. Considered by some to be the greatest woman pastel portraitist after Rosalba Carriera , Adelaide Labille-Guiard overcame numerous obstacles to become one of the most respected artists in Paris during the mid-1780s. Born in 1749, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was a supremely talented painter who forged her career at a time when the Parisian art world was dominated by aristocratic and male institutions and networks.
The Artistic Career of 18thcentury French Painter Adélaïde LabilleGuiard
When Adélaïde Labille-Guiard exhibited this life-sized Self-Portrait with Two Pupils at the Salon sponsored by the Parisian Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1785, she was making a daring bid for patronage. Labille-Guiard had always had to find her own way. Art The Collection European Paintings Madame Elisabeth de France (1764-1794) Adélaïde Labille-Guiard French ca. 1787 Not on view In 1783 Labille-Guiard became one of only four women painters admitted to the French Royal Academy. A leading portraitist, she showed oils and pastels regularly at the Salon. Labille-Guiard was one of a small group of successful women artists working in France in the second half of the eighteenth century. She drew this study of the heads of her two students in preparation for her lifesize Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, which is in the Metropolitan Museum's European Paintings collection. Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, also known as Adélaïde Labille-Guiard des Vertus, was a French miniaturist and portrait painter. She was an advocate for women to receive the same opportunities as men to become great painters. Labille-Guiard was one of the first women to become a member of the Royal Academy and was the first female artist to.
1787 Madame Victoire de France by Adélaïde LabilleGuiard the lost gallery (Châteaux de
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard French Sitter Marie Gabrielle Capet French 1789 Not on view Producing portraits in miniature, pastel, and oil, Labille-Guiard was admitted to the Académie Royale in 1783, one of the few women in eighteenth-century France to earn this honor. Labille-Guiard was a lifelong champion for women's rights and worked toward reforming the Academy's policies towards women. A supporter of the French Revolution, Labille-Guiard remained in Paris throughout the turbulent era, winning new patrons and creating portraits of deputies of the National Assembly.
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard French 1785 On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 632 Labille-Guiard's self-portrait with her students Marie Gabrielle Capet and Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemont is one of the most remarkable images of women's art education in early modern Europe. The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired the greatest pastel by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, one of the leading women artists in 18th-century Europe. The work was purchased at auction at Christie's in Paris on June 16. Portrait of Madame Charles Mitoire with Her Children (1783) depicts a fashionably dressed woman with her two young sons.
Adelaide LabilleGuiard Portrait of a female painter a her easel, quarterlength, in a blue
Labille-Guiard was the official painter for the daughters of Louis XV, the Mesdames de France, though she later leaned towards painting revolutionary leaders like Maximilien Robespierre. She was passionate about giving female artists equal opportunities within the Académie and her work is described as direct and candid (Nicholson). Labille-Guiard was a revolutionary woman and artist for her time and unusually independent; she legally obtained a separation from her husband in 1779 (Nicholson). She later took an active role in reforming regulations of the Académie and also advocated for wider admission for female artists. Fig. 1 - Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (French, 1749-1803).
