Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Illustrations 7
4. Acknowledgements 19
5. Preface 21
6. Introduction 23
7. Overture
8. 1. Women and Modes of Self-Portraiture: Fashion, Motherhood, Sensibilité 41
9. Part I Art as Social Practice
10. 2. The Woman Artist and the Uncovering of the Social World 101
11. 3. “La touche d’une femme”: Women Artists in the Age of Revolutions 123
12. Part II Gender and Fashion
13. 4. Chardin’s Girls: The Ethics of Painting 147
14. 5. Thinking Animals: Dogs and Men in Eighteenth-Century French Hunting Art 177
15. 6. Temporality and Figures de mode : Fashion, Costume, and Gender in Eighteenth- Century Drawings and Prints 203
16. Part III Women in Natural History
17. 7. Marie-Thérèse Reboul (Madame Vien): More than a Footnote in Art History 239
18. 8. Mlle Basseporte’s Jardin, Mlle Biheron’s Cabinet : Artist-Scientists and Their Spheres of Sociability 281
19. Part IV Encounters in Portraiture
20. 9. Marguerite Le Comte’s Smile: Portrait of an Amatrice 303
21. 10. Imperial Family Portraits : Gender, Race, and Social Rank in the Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray 331
22. 11. Madeleine of the Americas : Resituating Benoist’s Portrait of a Young Black Woman in Colonial Art 357
23. Index 385