Wedded to her Profession? Marie-Suzanne Roslin as Artist and Artist's Wife - Melissa Hyde, University of Florida April 13, 2012

Organized by the Institute for Advanced Study and the Department of Art History at the University of Minnesota.
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Melissa Hyde is currently Director of Graduate Studies and Head of Art History at the University of Florida, where she specializes in early modern European art, with an emphasis on cultural history, gender studies, feminist theory and the history of art criticism. She teaches courses on European art (especially French) of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; and on gender and the visual arts.

Marie-Suzanne Giroust, Madame Roslin, (1734 – 1772) was a French painter, miniaturist and pastellist as well as a member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture. She was married to the Swedish painter Alexander Roslin and served as his model for his 1768 painting La Dame au voile (The Lady with the Veil). Pictured here is her 1770 self portrait.

Professor Hyde is the author of numerous publications that focus on gender and visual culture in eighteenth-century France. Her books include Making Up the Rococo: François Boucher and his Critics (2006), and co-edited volumes: Women, Art and the Politics of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe (2003), and Rethinking Boucher (2006), to which she was a contributing editor. Another co-edited volume entitled Plumes et pinceaux de Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun à Johanna von Haza. L'art français vue par les Européenes 1750-1850 will be published in spring 2012.

Hyde is currently co-authoring a book with Mary D. Sheriff, Women in French Art. Rococo to Romanticism 1750-1830. The proposal for this book won the inaugural Mellor Prize, an award bestowed by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA). She was a consulting curator for an exhibition on 18th- and 19th-century women artists entitled Royalists to Romantics, which will open at the NMWA in February 2012, and has written catalogue essays for this and several other exhibitions, including Anne Vallayer-Coster. Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette (2002), Alexander Roslin (2007), and Rococo: The Continuing Curve (2008).

The Theorizing Early Modern Studies Collaborative is supported by the Institute for Advanced Study and organized by Professors JB Shank (History), Michael Gaudio (Art History), and Juliette Cherbuliez (French and Italian).

Official Website: http://tems.umn.edu