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Kunstenaar Marie Guilhelmine Benoist

"Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist was born in 1768.A woman of aristocratic lineage, Benoist was educated by Élisabeth Vigée Lebrun in 1781 and at Jacques-Louis David's atelier in 1786. Benoist belonged to a small elite circle of professional women painters that included, among others, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Marguerite Gérard, Angélique Mongez, and Adélaide Labille-Guiard. In 1791, she exhibited her work for the first time in the Salon de Paris with her now-famous, mythology-inspired painting Psyché Faisant Ses Adieux à Sa Famille.In 1800, six years after slavery had been abolished, Benoist exhibited Portrait d'une Négresse in the Salon, whereupon she became a symbol for women's emancipation and black people's rights. The painting was acquired by Louis XVIII for France in 1818.In 1804, Benoist was awarded a Golden Medal in the Salon and received an annual government allowance. She inaugurated an atelier for women and Napoléon Bonaparte himself commissioned her to paint for him.She died in 1826."

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