Une artiste en résidence dans le monde des fleurs L'art botanique de Madeleine Françoise Basseporte

This article examines the production and reception of botanical illustrations by Madeleine Françoise Basseporte. It presents the relationship between image and artist as a form of visibility-in-invisibility, long thought to conceal a hidden life. Basseporte’s oeuvre attests both to the marginalization of woman illustrators typical of the period and to the vivacity of a woman artist who achieved relative fame under unfavorable conditions.