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Talent and sentiment : a portrait of the artist Marie-Anne Collot (1748-1821) as a young woman

Marjan Sterckx (UGent)
(2024) Campaspe talks back : women who made a difference in Early Modern Art. p.215-223
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This essay presents a portrait of the artist Marie-Anne Collot as a young woman. The aim is to illustrate the intertwining of Collot's private life with the rapid initiation, successful development and early abandonment of her artistic career. Collot's case illustrates the different roles women have held and combined in the art world and beyond, and how personal circumstances can affect an artist's professional life, a connection that is particularly important for a woman artist. In Collot's life, Campaspe became Apelles: the model became an artist in her own right. Collot was particularly successful as a portrait sculptor for Empress Catherine II of Russia. When she also became a wife and mother, this had a profound effect on her life and work. Her unhappy marriage hindered her work. When caring for both her daughter and her very dependent father-in-law became too much for her, and when it became too dangerous to remain in revolutionary Paris, Collot gave up her art for a new life centred on her family, in the countryside on a large estate which she ran, becoming a patron herself.
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woman sculptor, sculpture, 18th century, 19th century, portrait, woman artist, Paris, Russia, France, The Netherlands, model, care, motherhood, biography

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Sterckx, Marjan. “Talent and Sentiment : A Portrait of the Artist Marie-Anne Collot (1748-1821) as a Young Woman.” Campaspe Talks Back : Women Who Made a Difference in Early Modern Art, edited by Lieke Van Deinsen et al., Brepols, 2024, pp. 215–23.
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Sterckx, M. (2024). Talent and sentiment : a portrait of the artist Marie-Anne Collot (1748-1821) as a young woman. In L. Van Deinsen, B. Schepers, M. Sterckx, H. Vlieghe, & B. Watteeuw (Eds.), Campaspe talks back : women who made a difference in Early Modern Art (pp. 215–223). Turnhout: Brepols.
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Sterckx, Marjan. 2024. “Talent and Sentiment : A Portrait of the Artist Marie-Anne Collot (1748-1821) as a Young Woman.” In Campaspe Talks Back : Women Who Made a Difference in Early Modern Art, edited by Lieke Van Deinsen, Bert Schepers, Marjan Sterckx, Hans Vlieghe, and Bert Watteeuw, 215–23. Turnhout: Brepols.
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Sterckx, Marjan. 2024. “Talent and Sentiment : A Portrait of the Artist Marie-Anne Collot (1748-1821) as a Young Woman.” In Campaspe Talks Back : Women Who Made a Difference in Early Modern Art, ed by. Lieke Van Deinsen, Bert Schepers, Marjan Sterckx, Hans Vlieghe, and Bert Watteeuw, 215–223. Turnhout: Brepols.
Vancouver
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Sterckx M. Talent and sentiment : a portrait of the artist Marie-Anne Collot (1748-1821) as a young woman. In: Van Deinsen L, Schepers B, Sterckx M, Vlieghe H, Watteeuw B, editors. Campaspe talks back : women who made a difference in Early Modern Art. Turnhout: Brepols; 2024. p. 215–23.
IEEE
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M. Sterckx, “Talent and sentiment : a portrait of the artist Marie-Anne Collot (1748-1821) as a young woman,” in Campaspe talks back : women who made a difference in Early Modern Art, L. Van Deinsen, B. Schepers, M. Sterckx, H. Vlieghe, and B. Watteeuw, Eds. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024, pp. 215–223.
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