Often ignored in art history, women artists only emerged at the end of the 19th century.

Some women have made their mark, such as Artemisia Gentileschi during the Renaissance or Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun, Marie-Antoinette's painter.

Even though some female talents exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1860 onwards, the institutional artistic career was closed to women.
They were forbidden to attendart school and official commissions for original works were rare.

Their emancipation really takes place in 1880 and 1940
Gustave Halbart presents us with a charming oil painting. Probably one of her sisters painting