Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond (died 1788)

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond (died 1788) by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

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...

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