JOURNAL ARCHIVES

AUTUMN 2008

SELF-PORTRAITS

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-93)

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)

Piero della Francesca (1412-92)

Édouard Manet (1832-83)

Berthe Morisot (1841-95)

Edvard Munch (1863-1944)

Odilon Redon (1840-1916)

Henri Rousseau (1844-1910)

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)

Caterina van Hemessen (1528-87)

Marie-Denise Villers (1774-1821)

AUTUMN 2008

MARIE-DENISE VILLERS (1774-1821)

Young woman drawing. Marie-Denise Villers (also known as Marie-Denise Lemoine). 1801. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. Alice Childress (1920-94), writer Originally attributed to Jacques-Louis David, art historians now credit Marie-Denise Villers with this painting and believe that it is a self-portrait. Villers was primarily a portraitist and her artistic output was fairly limited. Young woman drawing is her finest work.