Labille-Guiard is slowly but surely getting the attention she deserves, thanks to the scholarship of art historians Anne-Marie Passez, Laura Auricchio, and others. This was a rumor probably created by their status as women in an almost entirely male institution, rather than an actual hostility. Whatever the reason, Labille-Guiard has historically been overshadowed by Vigée-Lebrun, often relegated to a mere passing mention of their supposed rivalry. Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Portrait of Madame Molé-Reymond, of the Comédie italienne, 1786, Musée du Louvre
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