Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond (died 1788)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
83 x 59 1/2 in. (210.8 x 151.1 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953
Accession Number
53.225.5
Tags
ArtistsPaintingSelf-portraitsWomen
About this artwork
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard created this monumental self-portrait in 1785 for the Paris Salon, where it achieved tremendous critical and popular success. The painting depicts the artist at her easel with her two most accomplished pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond, in a powerful assertion of women's artistic achievement and pedagogical authority. Labille-Guiard, one of only four women admitted to the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture (the maximum num...