by Jon Lackman | 23 March 2006 | Journals, Modern
In “The Journal des Dames et des Modes: Fashioning Women in the Arts, c. 1800-1815,” which appears in the latest issue of Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Heather Belnap Jensen asserts that contrary to received opinion “women increasingly engaged in the art world as both producers and consumers during the Napoleonic period … Women’s journals, which often published art-related materials, have been largely overlooked in discussions of developments in late eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century French visual culture … [and they suggest] a place for women in the art world that was unimaginable under the ancien régime.” Also in this issue, an account of the newly discovered Delacroix painting, Portrait of Charles de Verninac (1825-26).
