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In this engaging biography, Portrait of a Woman, Bridget Quinn applies her insightful interpretation of art history to Labille-Guiard’s life.

She offers a fascinating new perspective on the artist’s feminism, her sexuality, and her vision of the world.

Quinn expertly blends close analyses of paintings with broader context about the era and inserts delicately fictionalized interpersonal scenes that fill the gaps in the historical record.

This is a compelling and inspiring look at an artist too long overlooked.

Bridget Quinn is a writer, art historian, and critic. She is the author of the award-winning Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order) and She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next.

“Deliciously inventive.... Portraying key moments from her subject’s life in vivid scenes and colorful dialogue, Quinn breathes life into her cast of characters and the anxious times in which they lived.... This excellent work of art history deserves a wide readership.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review