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Emotional lability: a sign or symptom typified by exaggerated changes in mood or affect in quick succession.

Stéphanie Félicité, Marquise de Sillery, Comtesse de Genlis (25 January 1746 — 31 December 1830)

Madame de Genlis was a French writer who maintained a long correspondence with Napoleon and was on the government’s payroll from 1801 to 1814. There is a lot of debate about the nature of the correspondence. Some contemporaries and historians believe she was Napoleon’s spy.

Lady Morgan asked Madame de Genlis about this:

“Buonaparte,” she said, “was extremely liberal to literary people — a pension of four thousand francs, per annum, was assigned to all authors and gens-de-lettres, whose circumstances admitted of their acceptance of such a gratuity. He gave me, however, six thousand, and a suite of apartments at the Arsenal. As I had never spoken to him, never had any intercourse with him whatever, I was struck with this liberality, and asked him what he expected I should do to merit it? When the question was put to Napoleon, he replied carelessly, ‘Let Madame de Genlis write me a letter once a month.’ As no subject was dictated, I chose literature, but I always abstained from politics.”

Source: France, Lady Morgan, published 1817, p. 360

An outline of her life and career can be read in Destins de Femmes, French Women Writers, 1750-1850 by John Claiborne Isbell, (published 2023).

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Self Portrait at an Easel - Sofonisba Anguissola // Self Portrait - Mary Cassatt // Self Portrait with Two Pupils - Adélaïde Labille-Guiard // Self Portrait - Gwen John // Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria - Artemisia Gentileschi // Self Portrait in a Straw Hat - Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun // The Man - Taylor Swift

Six fanarts challenge!

It was quite fun to do, might do more in the future!

women painted by women ❤️

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Self-Portrait at the Easel with Two Students, Marie Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond, 1785, oil/canvas (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC)

everybody wants me for my thoughtful analysis & thorough communication of my feelings

Some more 1780s big hair fashion -

Top left  ca. 1780 Robe à la française (location ?). From fripperiesandfobs.tumblr.com-page/2 1548X1146.

Top right  ca. 1780 Robe à l'anglaise (Museo de la Moda - Santiago, Chile). From 18thcenturylove.tumblr.com-tagged-robe+a+l'anglaise-page-2 1678X1250.

Second row  ca. 1780 Four views of robe à la Polonaise (Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City, New York, USA). From their Web site 2893X1315.

Third row  ca. 1780 Robe à la Polonaise (Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City, New York, USA). From their Web site 900X1200.

Fourth row  1781 The Tea Garden by ? (British Museum - London, UK). From their Web site 3968X5518.

Fifth row  1781 (probable exh' date) Adélaïde Genet, Madame Auguié (1758-1794), sister of Mme. Campan by Anne Vallayer-Coster (Sotheby's - 8Jul09 auction Lot 41). From their Web site; fixed spots w Pshop 3428X4290.

Sixth row  1781 Ernestine Fredérique, Princess de Croy by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun (Nationalmuseum - Stockholm, Sweden). From Wikimedia 1067X1349.

Seventh row  1783 Madame Charles Mitoire, née Christine-Geneviève Bron (1760-1842), avec ses enfants by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (Getty Museum - Los Angeles, California, USA). From their Web site; fixed spots & edges w Pshop 2332X2965

Eighth row  ca. 1785 Princesse de Lamballe by French school (location ?). From servimg.com-view-18669219-6356 812X973.

Madame Charles Mitoire with Her Children by Adelaide Labille-Guiard, 1783.

Context: portrait of Christine-Genevieve Bron with her sons Alexandre-Laurent Mitoire and Charles-Benoit Mitoire.

Oil Painting, 1790, French.

By Adélaïde Labille-Guiard.

Portraying the Duchess d’Aiguillon in a pale blue dress.

Sotheby’s.

https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/tableaux-omp-19me-sculpture-pf1809/lot.67.html

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Self-portrait with Two Pupils detail, 1785

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749-1803) "Portrait of Madame Charles Mitoire with Her Children" (1783) Pastel, on three sheets of blue paper, mounted on canvas Neoclassical Located in the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, United States This is no ordinary portrait of an eighteenth-century lady, for Madame Mitoire here bears a breast to nurse her infant son Charles-Benoît. Though its composition echoes traditional representations of the Holy Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist, this portrait also signals the modernity of its subject and her approach to motherhood. Published in 1762, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s celebrated Enlightenment treatise on education and child-rearing, "Émile," implored women of all classes to cultivate more intimate bonds with their children and, above all, to breast-feed them personally, rather than retaining the services of a wet nurse, as most wealthy families did at the time. A vogue for breast-feeding swept Europe, and genteel women retreated from public life, into the domestic sphere to fulfill what Rousseau called “their first duty." Depicting a nursing mother, the portrait may also allude to Rousseau’s recommendations in its presentation of the infant, unencumbered by swaddling clothes (of which Rousseau strongly disapproved), and perhaps also in its inclusion of a glass of wine on the table at left (Rousseau’s tract draws a contrast between milk, “our first nourishment,” and wine, an acquired taste).

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

A portrait of Christine-Geneviève, Madame Mitoire, with her children Alexandre-Laurent and Charles-Benoît by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, 1783.

"normalize this, normalize that" normalize emotional lability? psuedobulbar affect?

it's great that we're normalizing the widespread things but I didn't realize what was wrong with me until a few years ago. I had no friends because of it. and then I was so depressed and mastered hiding emotions that it didn't even show up, and people finally wanted to be friends with me. they only liked me when I stopped feeling emotive at all.

I don't expect y'all to know and research every condition possible, but at least treat people kindly if you don't know what's going on. that kid at school who has trouble expressing emotions in a normal way? they're not a "crybaby" or "too emotional." that coworker who struggles with regulating their feelings, and either shows too much or too little? there's a reason.

I don't ask for reblogs but for the love of god just be kind to people so they don't have fucked up lives and think that they're the problem.