Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Mary D. Sheriff: Charting New Possibilities for Feminist Art History - Mechthild Fend, Jennifer Germann, and Melissa Hyde
OVERTURE
1. Women and Modes of Self-Portraiture: Fashion, Motherhood, Sensibilité, - Mary D. Sheriff
PART I. ART AS SOCIAL PRACTICE
2. The Woman Artist and the Uncovering of the Social World, - Lynn Hunt
3. “La touche d’une femme”: Women Artists in the Age of Revolutions, - Paris Spies-Gans
PART II. GENDER AND FASHION
4. Chardin’s Girls: The Ethics of Painting, - Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
5. Thinking Animals: Dogs and Men in Eighteenth-Century French Hunting Art, - Amy Freund
6. Temporality and Figures de mode: Fashion, Costume, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Drawings and Prints, - Susan L. Siegfried
PART III. WOMEN IN NATURAL HISTORY
7. Marie-Thérèse Reboul (Mme Vien): More Than a Footnote in Art History, - Melissa Hyde
8. Mlle Basseporte’s Jardin, Mlle Biheron’s Cabinet: Artist-Scientists and Their Spheres of Sociability, - Nina Rattner Gelbart
PART IV. ENCOUNTERS IN PORTRAITURE
9. Marguerite Le Comte’s Smile: Portrait of an Amatrice, - Mechthild Fend
10. Imperial Family Portraits: Gender, Race, and Social Rank in The Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray, - Jennifer Germann
11. Madeleine of the Americas: Resituating Benoist’s Portrait of a Young Black Woman in Colonial Art, - Anne Lafont
Index