Women, art and the politics of identity in eighteenth-century Europe

Introduction: Art, cultural politics and the woman question / Melissa Hyde, Jennifer Milam

'An ornament of Italy and the premier female painter of Europe': Rosalba Carriera and the Roman Academy / Christopher M.S. Johns

Lovisa Ulrike of Sweden, Chardin and enlightened despotism / Paula Rea Radisich

Practicing portraiture: Mademoiselle de Clermont and J.-M. Nattier / Kathleen Nicholson

Commerce in the Boudoir / Jill H. Casid

Matronage and the direction of sisterhood: portraits of Madame Adélaïde / Jennifer Milam

Under the sign of Minerva: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard's Portrait of Madame Adélaïde / Melissa Hyde

The cradle is empty: Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Marie-Antoinette, and the problem of intention / Mary D. Sheriff

Ancient matrons and modern patrons: Angelica Kauffman as a classical history painter / Wendy Wassyng Roworth

Angelica's odyssey: Kauffman's paintings of Penelope and the weaving of narrative / Angela Rosenthal

The 'other Atelier': Jacques-Louis David's female students / Mary Vidal

Goya's portraits of the Duchess of Osuna: fashioning identity in enlightenment Spain / Andrew Schulz.