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Lesley Stevenson

Louise Moillon

Lesley Stevenson

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English
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
15 April 2024
Art & design styles: Baroque; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs
Series: Illuminating Women Artists
Belonging to the wider circle of Calvinist exiles from Catholic Flanders working in the Saint-Germain des-Prés area of Paris, Moillon was the sole female practitioner of a group that included Sébastien Stosskopf, Jacques Linard, and Lubin Baugin. Louise Moillon reassesses the importance of this painter of still-life (and occasional genre) paintings through a consideration of the context in which she was working; the centrality of the genre of still life in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés area of Paris in the earlier part of the seventeenth century; and provides close visual analyses of her works.

Moillon offers a useful case study of a supremely talented artist whose relative posthumous invisibility may be explained by three key features: her gender; the genre of still life at which she excelled but which became increasingly overlooked after the foundation of the French Académie royale in 1648; and a change in her domestic role after her marriage, when she produced fewer works. This book questions some of the ways in which Moillon’s story has been represented since the beginnings of the revival of interest in her work in the early twentieth century. In particular, it draws on more recent scholarship which grants early modern women from Moillon’s social class greater agency than was previously assumed and grants her a rightful place alongside her male contemporaries.

 
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Imprint:   Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 250mm,  Width: 190mm,  Spine: 16mm
ISBN:   9781848224919
ISBN 10:   1848224915
Series:   Illuminating Women Artists
Pages:   112
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction; 1 In Search of Louise Moillon; 2 Genre; 3 Gender; 4 Genius; Conclusion; Chronology; Bibliography

Lesley Stevenson has a PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art on 'Modernism, Still Life and Cezanne' and currently teaches in the School of Art, Architecture and Design at London Metropolitan University. Her previous publications include monographs on Gauguin, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and Manet. Her research focuses on the genre of still life in painting and photography.

Reviews for Louise Moillon

'Stevenson’s study illustrates the innovative strategies that are required to complete women’s art histories when the official record leaves so many gaps to be filled. The book’s accessibility – in language, length and level of prior knowledge required – broadens its possible reach beyond an academic audience and is a welcome addition to scholarship on seventeenth-century French art production and the women whose careers must be included in this story.' – Tori Champion, The Burlington Magazine


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