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The anxiety that various expressions of the parisienne settings and styles (cat. nos. 5, 13 and 16). Though
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could induce in French (masculine) society took on often dramatic in their conclusions (fig. 3), few of these
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more subtle tones as well. In the 1870s and 1880s works focused on a clear political agenda, or on women’s
in particular, with widespread concerns about female active engagement with the most pressing issues of the
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literacy access to journalism, and the corrosive day; even in Jean Béraud’s Un Figaro de rêve (cat. no. 5), in
influence of certain books on impressionable young which an elegantly clad woman contemplates the latest
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girls’ minds, images of women reading, or the figure news, allusions to women’s awareness of current events
of the liseuse, abounded in French art, in a variety of occur in only the most benign and decorative of terms. 18
Fig. 3: James Tissot, Abandoned, c. 1881-82, Roy Miles Fine Paintings, London
28 Jean-François Raffaëlli, Portrait d’une Élégante 29
