The National Gallery has acquired a painting by a woman!
Eva Gonzalès joins a select band of (checks notes) 20 women artists represented in the collection
A quick thing that pleased me today.
April 19 is
the birthday of the artist Eva Gonzalès (1849‒1883), who was a major artist in her lifetime and exhibited multiple times to acclaim at the official Paris Salon. She was also Edouard Manet’s only official pupil.
177 years after her birth, the National Gallery has acquired its first of her pictures, La Psyc…
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