Labille-Guiard, Adelaide
French Neoclassical Painter, 1749-1803
French painter. Labille-Guiard was a painter of the French nobility before the Revolution and survived to paint the citizens of the Directory. Emerging from the 18th-century tradition of powdered wigs and shimmering satins, she captured informal moments in the lives of her subjects, frequently depicting them interrupted from some pastime
ID: 19121 Self-Portrait with Two Pupils 1785, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
