A Space of Their Own

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Selected Works

A young woman is depicted from the chest up, reclining against a blue background. She has very light skin, dark brown wavy hair with a blue ribbon tied in it, and blue eyes. She is wearing a white dress or shift, which has been pulled down to reveal her shoulders and both breasts. Her head is turned slightly away from the viewer, and she has a slight smile on her face.

Head of a Young Woman

1779
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Head of a Young Woman, 1779. Pastel on paper, mounted on canvas, 54.6 × 44.5 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum
The J. Paul Getty Museum

A woman with very light skin, gray hair with a few curls that has been pulled into an updo with roses, and a shiny blue dress is seated, the top of her dress pulled down to allow an infant in her arms to breastfeed. The woman is turned to face another young child with light skin and blonde hair, who stands alongside her looking into her face with one arm on the back of her chair.

Portrait of Madame Charles Mitoire with Her Children

1783
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Portrait of Madame Charles Mitoire with Her Children, 1783. Pastel on three sheets of blue paper, mounted on canvas, 98.4 x 78.7 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum
The J. Paul Getty Museum

A light-skinned woman in a blue dress with a large feathered hat is seated at an easel, holding a paint palette and looking directly at the viewer. Behind her, two younger women, both with light skin and dressed in muted colors, look over the back of her chair at what the seated woman is painting.

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond

1785
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond, 1785. Oil on canvas, 210.8 x 151.1 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 53.225.5
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A woman with light skin, pink cheeks, and a large, curly gray updo is seated at a writing table. She wears an all-white outfit including a shiny dress with 3/4 sleeves, a slightly see-through polka-dot shawl around her neck, and a see-through polka-dot cap over the top of her hair. In one hand she holds a white quill pen to a sheet of paper, while the other hand holds a white handkerchief.

Portrait de femme

1787
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Portrait de femme, 1787. Oil on canvas, 100.6 x 81.4 cm. Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper
Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper

A sepia-toned drawing of a seated woman, shown from the waist up in a side profile view. Her dress or shirt has slipped down, revealing her bare upper arm and back, and her dark wavy hair is partially wrapped in a light-colored turban. She has a dangling earring in her ear, and she her head is turned so that she can look out the corner of her eye to the right.

Study of a Seated Woman Seen from Behind (Marie-Gabrielle Capet)

1789
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Study of a Seated Woman Seen from Behind (Marie-Gabrielle Capet), 1789. Red, black, and white chalk on toned laid paper, 52 x 48 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008.538.1
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A seated woman with light skin, pink cheeks, and gray curly hair looks out with a serious expression. She is wearing a blue dress, green gloves, a whie scarf and collar that reach her chin, and a white lace cap with ribbon bows on her hair, so that only her face and part of her hair is uncovered.In one hand, she holds a closed folding fan.

Portrait of Madame de Genlis

1790
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Portrait of Madame de Genlis, 1790. Oil on canvas laid down on board, 73.98 x 60.01 cm. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 91.2
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

A smiling, light-skinned young man with thin, wavy brown hair that nearly reaches his shoulders. He is seated sideways on a chair with his arms crossed to rest on its back, and he looks away slightly to the right. He is wearing a brown coat, a red-and-black striped waistcoat, and a white shirt with a tall collar.

Portrait of Joachim Lebreton

1795
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Portrait of Joachim Lebreton, 1795. Oil on canvas, 73.03 x 59.69 cm. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 94-34
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

A sepia-toned drawing of two women from teh shoulders up. One is shown in side profile and has gray curly hair, while the other looks directly at the viewer and has lighter hair.

Marie Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond

ca. 1785
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Marie Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond, ca. 1785. Black chalk with stumping, red and white chalks on beige paper, 38.1 x 48.3 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998.186
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A light-skinned woman with rosy cheeks and a large, elaborate updo of gray hair stands in front of an easel with an artwork on it. She is wearing a red dress with a white ruffled front and skirt, a white cap over the top of her hair, and holds a white cloth in one hand. The image on teh easel shows the faces of three men, overlapping and in profile. The entire painting is framed in an elaborate gold frame with a crest and laurels at the top.

Portrait of Madame Adélaïde

ca. 1787
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Portrait of Madame Adélaïde, ca. 1787. Oil on canvas, 273.7 × 187.3 cm. Speed Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Berry V. Stoll, restored by income from the Marguerite Montgomery Baquie Memorial Trust, 1993, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1982.21
Speed Art Museum

A woman with light skin and curly gray hair is shown from the chest up. She wears an outfit that includes a large dark gray hat with blue ribbons, bows, and feathers, along with a striped white shawl tied around her neck and decorated with a corsage of small flowers.

A Fashionable Noblewoman Wearing a Plumed Hat

ca. 1789
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, A Fashionable Noblewoman Wearing a Plumed Hat, ca. 1789. Pastel on blue laid paper mounted on canvas, 55 x 46 cm. National Gallery of Art, 1999.92.1
National Gallery of Art