Self-Portrait with Two Pupils
by LABILLE-GUIARD, Adélaide, Oil on canvas, 211 x 151 cm
The artist portrayed herself before the easel with her two pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond (died 1788).
In 1783, when Labille-Guiard and Vig�e-Lebrun were admitted to the French Acad�mie Royale, the number of women artists eligible for membership was limited to four, and this canvas has been interpreted as a propaganda piece, arguing for the place of women in the academy.