« Peinte par elle-même ? » Femmes artistes, professeures et étudiantes d’Anguissola à Haudebourt-Lescot

This essay considers what portraits and self-portraits of several women artists tell about problems of authorship and artistic identity as well as relationships between female students and their teachers often represented on the paintings. These relationships, though not usually defined by the Oedipal dramas that feature so prominently in narratives of filiation about male artists, are no less complex, and are fraught with tensions and conflicts.