Rating and value of paintings, drawings and miniatures by Adelaïde Labille Guiard

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Cote et valeur de l'artiste Adelaïde Labille Guiard   

Adelaïde Labille Guiard is a well-known portrait artist. Her visibility on the art market continues to grow, her stock is exploding and she is increasingly in demand: it is speculated that her works could fetch unprecedented sums at auction. Female artists of the 19th century, students in the workshops of such undisputed masters as David and Ingres, are extremely sought-after works today. For the latter, a portrait of a woman sold for €1,040 in 1989, while Portrait de la duchesse d'Aiguillon, similar in compositional treatment and choice of colors, sold for €540,000 at Sotheby's in 2018. The auction price for a similar painting was therefore multiplied by more than 500.

Order of value from a simple work to the most prestigious

Style and technique of the artist Adélaïde Labille Guiard

Adelaïde Labille Guiard produced mainly oils on canvas, following the neoclassical trend and producing mainly portraits, particularly of women. She was a pupil of François-Élie Vincent and Quentin de la Tour.

Adélaïde Labille Guiard, portraying and miniaturizing nobility

Adélaïde Labille Guiard (1749-1803), also known by her maiden name Adélaïde Labille des Vertus, was a painter and miniaturist during the Ancien Régime and into the Consulate.

She came from a bourgeois Parisian family - and had an early sensitivity to fashion, her father running a milliner's store that dressed Jeanne du Barry, among others.

She had ties to miniaturist Jean-Antoine Gros, who married her sister, and then probably to her son, Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, painter to the Empire.

Adélaïde Labille Guiard gained early entry to the Académie de Saint-Luc, probably thanks to the miniaturist and painter François-Élie Vincent, whose classes she attended as a teenager.

The archives confirm that she was able to enter the Académie before the age of 20, when she married Nicolas Guiard, from whom she separated some time later.

She had the opportunity to exhibit paintings at the Salon, which she did, while training in the technique of oil painting with François-André Vincent, her second husband and son of her first master. However, the Académie de Saint Luc was closed in 1776, and the next step was to enter the Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture. Labille Guiard was subjected to insults in pamphlets, but thanks to the support of several painters, she won her case. Contrary to popular belief, the Ancien Régime was not unfavorable to women entering the Académie, as Élizabeth Vigée le Brun and Anne Valayer-Coster were also accepted, under the protectorate of Queen Marie Antoinette among others. She portrays the royal family before the revolution, and that of the Duc d'Orléans afterwards.

The artist's imprint on his time

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard left her mark on 19th-century academic art, and today is a relatively unknown but much sought-after artist, famous for her contribution to the neoclassical movement and the portrait genre.

One of his most famous paintings, Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, was exhibited at the Salon of 1785 and received rave reviews, even though the Oath of the Horatii, exhibited the same year, received all the honors.

Whatever happened in the 18th century, the artist was undoubtedly better known than she is today. She was able to make a living from her art. Now, the art market is seeing her value soar. Artists from this period, such as Sophie Allart and Anne Valayer-Coster, promise record-breaking auctions in the future.

Recognizing the artist's signature

Adelaïde Labille-Guiard does not necessarily sign her works. Copies may exist, which is why expertise remains important.

Knowing the value of a work

If you happen to own a work by or about Adelaïde Labille-Guiard, don't hesitate to request a free appraisal using the form on our website. A member of our team of experts and certified auctioneers will contact you promptly to provide you with an estimate of the market value of your work, as well as ad hoc information about it. If you're thinking of selling your work, our specialists will also be on hand to offer you alternatives for selling it at the best possible price, taking into account market trends.