Education Resource: ‘Modern Woman: Daughters and Lovers 1850 — 1918: Drawings from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris’
'Modern Woman: Daughters and Lovers 1850 — 1918 | Drawings from the Musée d'Orsay, Paris' is an exhibition of drawings by artists working in France in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
These artists increasingly abandoned idealised representations of the female figure, and turned to women from a diverse range of socioeconomic backgrounds, depicting them in their family lives and domestic activities, as well as in the public realm as spectators, performers and workers. Through these fascinating drawings, we see French society undergoing radical transformation.