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diioonysus · 8 months

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black women + art

#portrait of unknown swiss woman by unknown #portrait of lady elizabeth keppel adoring a herm of hymen england #portrait of a woman by felipe gutierrez #an african woman by willem van mieris #allegory of music by fieravino francesco ii maltese #gens de coloeur libres by leo dillon #young girl with fan by simon maris #portrait of a woman in a blue turban by eugene delacroix #the agrippine sibyl by abraham janssens #black woman wearing pearl necklace by johannes de groot ii #black woman in black chalk by frans van mieris #unknown black woman wearing a yellow head-dress decorated with pearls by peter paul rubens #young black woman by jean-louis andre theodore gericault #trade representative of the king of portugal in antwerp by albrecht durer #portrait of a moorish woman by paolo veronese #portrait d'une by marie-guilhelmine benoist #portrait of a black girl by anton azbe #untitled by ilia efimovich repin #portrait of madeleine by marie-guilhelmine benoist #unknown by unknown #sudanese beauty by leopold carl muller #woman in tignon by adolph rinck #unknown #africa by rosalba carriera #la martiniquaise by unknown #i do not know i could not find the artist #allegory of africa by jan boeckhorst #persina sitting on hyaspes' lap looking at a painting of andromeda by karel van mander iii #belle by david martin #fanny eaton by i can't find the artist

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deartotheheart · 5 years

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Portrait D'une Femme Noire (Portrait of a Black Lady)

Benoist Marie-Guillemine (1768 - 1826)

“On the eve of the French Revolution, Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist, otherwise known as Marie-Guilhelmine Leroux-Delaville (1768-1826), was part of a small elite group of young women painters who managed to follow the teaching of masters without belonging to a family of artists. Pupil of Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, she also frequented, from 1786-1791, Jacques-Louis David’s studio and exhibited her first paintings following the neoclassical style under his direction. Married in 1793 to Pierre Vincent Benoist, the family was suspected of royalist conspiracy and was subject to home visits. She survived the Terror while caring for her first child while her husband remained in hiding, selling small pastel portraits and moralizing genre scenes. Under the Consulate, having found a less difficult life, she sought to make her true talent known. Her portrait of MP Belley, presented in 1797 and 1798, fascinated the public. However, to represent a black was not then considered a noble subject, and seemed even more incongruous on the part of a woman from whom charming, family, or intimate subjects were expected. By presenting this portrait of an unknown black woman from the West Indies, Madame Benoist revives the neoclassical style at the Salon of 1800 and demonstrates her abilities while simultaneously triumphing over conventions expected from women artists.”

Luce-Marie ALBIGÈS, “Portrait d'une Femme Noire,” Histoire par l'image[en ligne], consulté le 05 mai 2019. http://www.histoire-image.org/fr/etudes/portrait-femme-noire.

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thatartblog · 6 years

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Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist, Portrait d'une négresse, 1800, oil on canvas, Paris, Musée du Louvre.

#orientalism #paintings #colonialism #black women

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blackradicalmuseumenthusiasm · 7 years

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"Portrait d'une Négresse" by Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist, now on display at the #Louvre. Six years after the (first) abolition of slavery in France, “Portrait d'une Négresse” was set on display in the Salon de Paris. 18 years later it was acquired by Louis XVIII. Almost 200 years after that, I had the pleasure of spending time with her. Smartly, the Louvre has placed a bench right before her, though not nearly close enough to take her in in the detail she deserves. If your favor is as good as mine was that day, you can pass the hoards crowded around the Mona Lisa and find her there, waiting for you, to have all to yourself. #blackradicalmuseumenthusiasm #BlackRadicalME #marieguillhelminebenoist #artselfie #BRMEParis #StayWokeLoveArt (at Musée du Louvre)

#staywokeloveart #blackradicalmuseumenthusiasm #brmeparis #marieguillhelminebenoist #artselfie #blackradicalme #louvre

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