and museum curators

The French reimagined it as a martyr of civilization

and sexuality

The book includes commentaries on all of the featured works

‘Acting as makers

Anne Vallayer-Coster -4 and museum curatorsKelsey Brosnan The first English language monograph on Vallayer Coster in two decades offers a renewed feminist lens on one of eighteenth century France's most celebrated painters. Anne Vallayer Coster (17441818) was a renowned French still life painter who earned the patronage of Queen Marie Antoinette. She began her career as one of just four female artists admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in the late eighteenth century before