A Space of Their Own

Marie-Guillemine Benoist

Selected Works

A young black woman with dark brown eyes is seated in a side profile, with her head turned to look out directly at the viewer with a serious expression. She wears a white cloth wrapped around her head and a loose white dress. The the arm facing the viewer has been taken out of its sleeve to rest on the woman's lap and the dress pulled down to reveal her bare breast.

Portrait of Madeleine

1800
Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Portrait of Madeleine, 1800. Oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm. Musée du Louvre, INV. 2508
Musée du Louvre

A young woman with light skin and dark curly hair is seated in a side profile, leaning slightly forward. She holds a young child with blonde curls against her with her arm around the child's shoulders. Both lok directly out at the viewer.

Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859)

1802
Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859), 1802. Oil on canvas, 116.8 x 89.5 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Julia A. Berwin, 1953, 53.61.4
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of Jean-Dominique Larrey

1804

Portrait of Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese

1808

Portrait of Napoleone-Elisa Bacciochi, Countess Camerata

1810

Self-Portrait of Marie Guilhelmine

1813

A woman with very light skin, pink cheeks, and dark brown curly hair stands with one arm across her chest and looking away to her right. She is wearing a pale blue dress that ties at the shoulders, and is gripping a yellow wrap or shawl that is draped over one shoulder and around her waist.

Portrait of a Lady

ca. 1799
Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1799. Oil on canvas, 1003. X 81.6 cm. San Diego Museum of Art, Gift of Anne R. and Amy Putnam, 1946.5
San Diego Museum of Art

Five Men

ca. 1800

Portrait of Mademoiselle Carnot

ca. 1800

Portrait of Marianne Elisa Bonaparte

ca. 1810

Portrait of the Empress Marie-Louise

ca. 1812

A black and white image of a seated man with crossed legs, a dark coat, a tall white collar, and a receding hairline. He leans on one elbow against a table covered in papers and books as he gazes directly out toward the viewer.

Portrait of Franz Joseph Gall

n.d.
E.J. Ruhierre after Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Portrait of Franz Joseph Gall, n.d. Mezzotint. Wellcome Library no. 3386i
Wellcome Library

Portrait of Madame Grassini

n.d.