Labille-Guiard, Adelaide 1788(1788)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 272 x 160 cm (107.1 x 63 in)
cyf Portrait of Louise 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
