Une jeune personne calquant une Fleur (A Young Woman Tracing a Flower), Antoine-Jean Weber; Louise Adéone Drölling

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Antoine-Jean Weber; Louise Adéone Drölling, Une jeune personne calquant une Fleur (A Young Woman Tracing a Flower)
Antoine-Jean Weber; Louise Adéone Drölling, Une jeune personne calquant une Fleur (A Young Woman Tracing a Flower)
Antoine-Jean Weber , Louise Adéone Drölling
Une jeune personne calquant une Fleur (A Young Woman Tracing a Flower)
1820–1875
Antoine-Jean Weber, artist
1797–1875
Louise Adéone Drölling, artist
1797–1834
Une jeune personne calquant une Fleur (A Young Woman Tracing a Flower), 1820–1875
Where object was made: France
Material/technique: lithograph
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 306 x 247 mm
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund
Accession number: 2002.0029
Not on display
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Weber’s lithograph presents botany as a science that upper- and middle-class women in the 19th century could, and often were encouraged, to practice from home. It also illustrates the intersections among science, drawing, and photography. The word photography derives from photos, meaning light, and graphos, meaning writing, delineation, or painting. This etymology signals the conception of photos as drawings made by light.

Victorian society deemed drawing and painting, along with sewing and playing music, to be beneficial skills for upstanding, middle- and upper-class young women. This image, which reproduces a painting by Louise Adéone Drölling now in the Saint Louis Art Museum, stresses the capabilities of the depicted woman in the realms of art and science. In addition to her study of the flower, numerous books, a musical instrument, a sculpture, and a portfolio of works on paper accompany her.

Exhibitions

Big Botany: Conversations with the Plant World
Stephen Goddard, curator
2018

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