Description: The first English-language monograph on Vallayer-Coster in two decades offers a renewed feminist lens on one of eighteenth-century France's most celebrated painters.
Review Quotes:
"In her nuanced descriptions, Brosnan focuses our gaze on the tactile surfaces of Vallayer-Coster's still lifes while also situating them in a broader cultural context. In her telling, the inanimate objects of Vallayer-Coster's paintings have much to say."
--Perrin Stein, Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art