The French Revolution saw an explosion of printed media and printmakers—including women, who used their artistic production to participate in the politics they were legally excluded from because of their gender. In this talk, curatorial intern and Ph.D. candidate Sarah Lund unfolds the layers of a large 18th-century French color print, from the radical Jacobin revolutionary who made it to the woman artist who, by blood, by marriage, and by trade, was equally entangled in the print’s politics even as she was excluded from its image. Lund explores how 18th-century women artists in France like Émira Sergent Marceau, Marie-Adélaïde Castellas-Moitte and Louise Pithoud “together carved new paths forward for citizenship and political participation when official paths were blocked. And ask us, in turn, to redefine and reframe what we count as participating in cultural, social, and political life.” As women and as artists, discover how they literally shaped, carved, and impressed the new and precarious French Revolutionary body into being, and used printmaking to think through and assert their own revolutionary citizenship. This talk is part of a series inspired by ReFrame, a museum-wide initiative to reimagine the function, role, and future of the university art museum. These talks examine difficult histories, foreground untold stories, and experiment with new approaches to the collections of the Harvard Art Museums, reflecting the concerns of our world today. TAKE A CLOSER LOOK: + Antoine Louis François Sergent-Marceau, French, “François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers,” 1798. Wash manner color printed on cream antique laid paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints, 2016.12. https://hvrd.art/o/354792. + Jean François Janinet, French, “Parisian Women March on Versailles (5 October 1789),” 1798. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Patrice Higonnet, M21315.12. https://hvrd.art/o/264967. + Louise Pithoud, French, “Male and Female Bacchants Installing a Herm,” c. 1792. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints, 2018.105. https://hvrd.art/o/361456. + Marie-Adélaïde Castellas-Moitte, French, “Study of a Girl,” after 1797. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund, 1998.7. https://hvrd.art/o/212359. SPEAKER: + Sarah Lund, Graduate Intern at the Harvard Art Museums and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University; + (Moderator) Lynette Roth, Daimler Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum and Head, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums. --- Recorded April 6, 2021. © President and Fellows of Harvard College. For questions related to permission for commercial use of this video, please contact the Department of Digital Imaging and Visual Resources at am_divr@harvard.edu.