Breaking Barriers: Sophie Fremiet and the Rise of Women Artists in Europe

Around the turn of the 19th century over a thousand women contributed more than 7000 works to London's and Paris’ premier exhibitions. It was a transformative moment for women artists in Europe who exhibited and sold their art in unprecedented numbers. In this context Sophie Fremiet painted her luminous Portrait of a Woman. Art historian Paris A. Spies-Gans delves into this era to upend longstanding assumptions about women’s opportunities and wrongly forgotten triumphs.

Portrait of a Woman (1818) is on view at the Getty Center South Pavilion Gallery S204

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