Madeleine Françoise Basseporte (1701-1780) and Marie-Thérèse Reboul Vien (1735-1806), two artists whose lives intertwined over the course of the eighteenth century in Paris, experienced careers that present fascinating case studies for Enlightenment-era artistic lineage and training, professional obstacles for women, and the placement of women artists in the context of the rococo.

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