Labille-Guiard, Adélaide
Adélaide Labille-Guiard (ädāläēd´ läbē´yə-gēär´), 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. Her self-portrait (1785) is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
More From encyclopedia.com
French Art , French art
French art, the artistic production of the region that constitutes the historic nation of France. See also French architecture.
Early Hist… Balthus , Balthus
Balthus (born 1908) was a European painter and stage designer who worked within the Western tradition of figure painting. He is best known fo… MINIATURE , MINIATURE
MINIATURE. In Europe, about 1520, the independent miniature, or "limning," evolved from the illuminated manuscript. In eighteenth-century A… Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres , Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) was the most important French painter in the neoclassic tradition during the… Jean-baptiste Greuze , GREUZE, JEAN-BAPTISTE (1725–1805)
GREUZE, JEAN-BAPTISTE (1725–1805), French painter. Born in Tournus (Burgundy) to a prosperous middle-class family,… Frans Hals , HALS, FRANS (c. 1581/85–1666), Dutch painter. Born in Antwerp, Hals emigrated to Haarlem with his family before 1591. There, he learned his trade fro…
You Might Also Like
NEARBY TERMS
Labille-Guiard, Adélaide