In the corner of a studio, one woman copies a framed image fixed to an easel while another leans forward to offer advice. Women were not permitted to attend state-run art schools in nineteenth-century France but often took private lessons. In fact, Duval Le Camus ran a studio that taught women to draw by copying, as the student with the drawing board is doing here.
Credit: Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
c. 1826
Oil on canvas
12.9 x 9.8in
1955.728
Image and text: The Clark Art Institute, 2024
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