Louise Moillon

$40.00 at The Getty Museum.

Lesley Stevenson This stunning volume is the first scholarly monograph in English devoted to French artist Louise Moillon.The life and career of Louise Moillon (1609/10–1696) offers a fascinating case study of a supremely talented artist whose posthumous reputation has been mired in invisibility. Born and raised in Paris, Moillon was the sole woman in a circle of Calvinist Protestant émigrés who brought their tradition of still-life painting with them from Flanders. During her lifetime, she was able to enjoy…