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Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)

Artist: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard French, Paris 1749–1803 Paris
Date: 1785
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 83 x 59 1/2 in. (210.8 x 151.1 cm)
Where to see it: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953 · CC0 Public Domain · The Met · see it at the museum ↗

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About Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

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 receive permission to set up a studio for her students at the Louvre.

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