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| | Art Bulletin, The: 19th century AD |
 | | Pierre Cartellier to Antoine-Denis Chaudet, letter of May 7, 1804, in H. Jouin, "Lettres inedits d'artistes francais du XIX siecle," Nouvelles Archives' de l'Art Francais, 3d ser., 16, (1900): 7-8. |
 | | 1, 85-88; and also the account by Aime Martin in Pierre de Nolhac, Madame Vigge-Lebrun: Peintre de Marie-Antoinette (Paris: Goupil, 1912), 129-35; this event is briefly mentioned by Mary Sheriff, The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigge-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 47-48. |
 | | The women, artists and wives of artists, were self-consciously performing history painting, citing and enacting antique precedents celebrated, for instance, in Nicolas-Guy Brenet's painting Piety and Generosity of Roman Women; Brenet's tableau hung next to David's painting of masculine martial sacrifice, Oath of the Horatii, in the Salon of 1785. |
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