Hersilia's Sisters: Jacques-Louis David, Women, and the Emergence of Civil Society in Post-Revolution France

by Norman Bryson

Political and cultural history and the arts combine in this engaging account of 1790s France.

In 1799, when the French artist Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) exhibited his Intervention of the Sabines, a history painting featuring the ancient heroine Hersilia, he added portraits of two contemporary women on either side of her--Henriette de Verninac, daughter of Charles-Fran?ois Delacroix, minister of foreign affairs, and Juliette...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606067710
• ISBN13: 9781606067710
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Getty Research Institute
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 3.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.7" x 10.8"