Galerie l’Atelier d’Artistes presents over forty works – paintings, drawings and photographs – made by women artists from the early eighteenth to the twentieth century. From Angelica Kaufmann to Madeleine Lemaire via Marie-Elisabeth Lemoine; from Anna Atkins to Dora Maar without forgetting Julia Margaret Cameron, they are painters or photographers, both sometimes, known or unknown …
In recent years, women artists have emerged from the shadows where they have been too often confined. The exhibition pays tribute to those creators who finally gain public recognition through the work of museums and galleries. This visibility was acquired only recently because before the twentieth century, and although there have always been female artists, the history of art has forgotten and retained only the most famous of them Artemisia Gentileschi, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Rosa Bonheur, Camille Claudel, Berthe Morisot, Gisele Freund, Charlotte Perriand …
Before 1750, in France, women painters remain few and not very visible, but they end up affirming their presence in the different Salons in Paris ( Salon de la Correspondance, Salon de la Jeunesse, Salon du Louvre à partir de la Révolution …) . With the support of Queen Marie-Antoinette, four women artists will be admitted to the Academy from 1783: Ms. Vien, Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Adelaide Labille-Guiard and Anne Vallayer-Coster. The painters David and Greuze are the first to open the door of their workspace to women. They developed the art of portraiture and self-portraiture between 1750 and 1850, a blessed period for women artists which has been called the “enchanted parenthesis”. The theme of the portrait will take shape, from the second half of the 18th century in France, a real movement of emancipation of women in art. Between 1770 and 1804, more than sixty self-portraits or portraits of women artists at their work are exhibited in the different Salons in Paris.
The exhibition shows several portraits of this period, such as the magnificent self-portrait of Marie-Elisabeth Lemoine on the palette, the supposed self-portrait of Constance Mayer “busy drawing”, a portrait of a young girl signed by Constance Charpentier … as well as paintings. and 19th and 20th century landscape drawings (Elisabeth Batty, Constance Gordon Cumming, Louise Abbéma …). Among the women photographers, the exhibition presents original prints of the famous pioneers of nineteenth-century English photography, such as Anna Atkins and Julia Margaret Cameron. In the following century, women photographers emancipated and ventured into areas previously reserved for men (avant-garde and photojournalism). They are called Laure Albin Guillot, Laura Gilpin, Bourke-White Margaret, Doris Ulmann or Dora Marr … The exhibition puts them in the spotlight through a selection of their photographic works.
Femmes artistes : peintres et photographes
november 7 – december 12, 2019
L’Atelier d’Artistes
74, Rue de Seine
75006 PARIS
