Adélaïde Labille-Guiard's Self Portrait with Two Pupils depicts the paradoxical relationship between being an artist and being a woman in eighteenth-century France.

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Works Cited:

Auricchio, Laura. Adélaide Labille-Guiard: Artist in The Age of Revolution. Los Angeles: Getty Trust, 2009.

Auricchio, Laura. "Eighteenth-Century Female Painters in France." Metmuseum.org. Oct. 2004. The Met. 11 Sept. 2019 <https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/18wa/hd_18wa.htm>.

Auricchio, Laura. “Self-Promotion in Adélaïde Labille-Guiard's 1785 ‘Self-Portrait with Two Students.’” The Art Bulletin, vol. 89, no. 1, 2007, pp. 45–62. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25067300.

Montfort, Catherine R. “Self-Portraits, Portraits of Self: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun, Women Artists of the Eighteenth Century.” Pacific Coast Philology, vol. 40, no. 1, 2005, pp. 1–18. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25474166.

Quinn, Bridget, and Lisa Congdon. Broad Strokes : 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order). Chronicle Books, 2017.