The Hidden Female Impressionists

“The woman artist is an ignored, little-understood force, delayed in its rise!” Hélène Bertaux, founder of Paris’s Union des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs, declared in 1881 with reference to the emergence of women on the art-scene. Discover the highly talented women who rubbed shoulders with the exclusive Impressionist clique in Paris in the late 19th Century: Monet, Renoir, Degas and Pissarro, but were largely forgotten as pre-20th-century female artists so often are.