Front Seat at the Revolution: Female French Artists at the time of Marie Antoinettehttps://contsturegister.smu.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=123IHI210-D

This spring, Nancy will be teaching the following course at Southern Methodist University.  For a link to registration information, please visit SMU’s Continuing Studies program.

While Marie Antoinette’s court remains known for its excesses, an emerging subject for art historians is the role female artists played at her court.  While Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun is the best known, others including Anne Valleyer-Coster, Adélaïde Labille-Guidard and others made their own contributions as portraitists, still-life and even history painters.  This course will look at their often overlooked work, their patrons and their fates as the French Revolution swirled around them. 


4 Thursdays

February 2 - 23, 2012

6-7:30 pm

Dallas Hall Room 357






Adélaide Labille-Guiard, Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, 1785, oil on canvas, 83” x 59”, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

For a complete list of courses Nancy has offered, please see her resume.