Liberté, égalité, exclusion

At the end of the reign of Louis XVI, women were finally included in art and its institutions. A generation of artists emerged including Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun Vallayer-Coster Anne, famous for her still lifes, Adelaide Labille-Guiard, Gabrielle Capet-Marie Guillemine Leroulx Delaville, Marguerite Gerard and Constance Charpentier. However these artists, while of great value, never became the equal of men in the cultural landscape of the official Revolution, and the Empire during the Restoration completed this work of censorship and exclusion. Soon there was nothing left of the emancipation movement whose foundations had been laid in the last years of the Ancient Regime.