This book examines the relationship of class, gender and race to visual culture in early nineteenth-century France. Drawing extensively on contemporary sources,

Examining the relationship of class, gender and race to visual culture in early 19th-century France, this study looks at the work of women artists, critics and

Over the past years, studies have begun not only to identify the factors that impeded the full participation of women artists in French cultural life, such as w

A history of European women's professional activities and organizational roles between 1789 and 1914.

Focusing on images of or produced by nineteenth-century European women, this volume explores genteel femininity as resistant to easy codification vis-à-vis the