Five-Minute Museum

Painting as Paris burned

By Emma Mustich

Musée des beaux-arts, Caen

Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842), "Portrait of a Young Girl," 1775.
Musée des beaux arts, Quimper

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749-1803), "Portrait of a Woman," c. 1787.
Musée des beaux arts, Arras

Marie Geneviève Bouliar (1763-1825), "Aspasia," 1794.
Musée des beaux-arts, Rouen

Rose Adélaïde Ducreux (1761-1802), "Portrait of the Artist."
Musée du Louvre

Constance Mayer (1778 - 1821), "The Dream of Happiness," early 19th century.
Bibliothèque-Musée de la Comédie française

Adèle Romany (1769-1846), "Portrait of Mademoiselle Raucourt, of the Opéra-Comique," 1812.
Musée national du château, Fontainebleau

Antoinette Cécile Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot (1784-1845), "The Kissing of the Feet in St. Peter's, Rome," 1812.
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris

Adrienne Marie Louise Grandpierre-Deverzy (1798 - 1869), "The Studio of Abel de Pujol," 1822.
Musée du Château et de Trianon, Versailles

Henriette Lorimier (1775 - 1854), "Portrait of Francois-Charles-Hugues- Laurent Pouqueville," 1830.
Musée du Château et de Trianon, Versailles

Marie Éléonore Godefroid (1778 – 1849), "Portrait of Jacques-Louis David (1778–1849)," 1843/1848.