Let Them Eat Paint: Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun and Adelaide Labille Guiard Part 2

On this episode, we give a quick rundown of the who, what, when, and why of the French Revolution before returning to our sistory about eighteenth-century painters Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun and Adelaide Labille Guiard. These women, now both successful painters and members of the Royal Academy, find themselves on opposite sides of the revolution. While Adelaide fights for women’s rights and contributes to the revolution in France, Adelaide flees the conflict and goes on to make her mark on the rest of the European continent, traveling around Italy, Austria, Prussia, and Russia painting the portraits of everyone who’s anyone. Once the dust of war has settled, Elisabeth and Adelaide find themselves at a dinner party in a new century, in a new France, as new women. What have their vastly different lives taught them, and what does putting their life stories in the context of one another teach us about them as individuals? Find out in this episode of Sistory Untold! Remember that this is part two, so if you haven't listened to part one yet, go back and listen to that!