« Portrait de l’artiste à son chevalet » La pratique de l’autoportrait par les artistes femmes et hommes dans le dernier tiers du xviii^e siècle

This text studies the practice of painted self-portraiture in late eighteenth-century France, with a focus on the social and material conditions that could lead artists to depict themselves. Then, it examines self-portraiture as practised by women in the context of the unprecedented process of feminisation the Parisian art world was then undergoing – one of the consequences of which was, precisely, the sudden vogue for images of women at their easels.