Book Review: The Portraitist by Susanne Dunlap
I recently wrote about the 18th-century French painter Elisabeth VigĂ©e Le Brun for Feminist Book Club’s “Reclaiming the Canon” series, so I was excited to see a new historical novel out about one of VigĂ©e Le Brun’s contemporaries, AdĂ©laĂŻde Labille-Guiard. Susanne Dunlap’s The Portraitist is a novelized account of Labille-Guiard’s career as one of the …