Olympe de Gouges I

Olympe de Gouges I is a sculpture by the contemporary French artist Cécile Raynal.

Marie Gouze, known as Olympe de Gouges (1748, Montauban – 1793, Paris) was a French woman of letters and politician, considered today as one of the pioneers of French feminism. An intellectual committed against the death penalty and the end of slavery, a women’s rights activist including the right to vote, she published the famous Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen in 1791. Two years later, during Robespierre’s Terror, she was arrested and guillotined for having supported the Girondins political group.

As always with her work, Cécile Raynal throws herself into researching the character with passion. She wants to grab all main aspects to develop her portrait. She then met historians and read several biographies, descriptive texts as well as plays written by Olympes de Gouges. She was particularly inspired by the historian Olivier Blanc’s biography. Cécile Raynal sees Olympe de Gouges’ character as: “A visionary, a resistant who lost, but whose fight is still relevant today, for both men and women”. With her portraits, she wants to show a courageous woman, with a determined and proud character. Olympe de Gouges’ hair is long and loose on one side, a symbol of her characteristic insubordinate and free spirit, and short and chopped on the side where the guillotine fell on her.

The artist’s work on Olympe de Gouges is linked to a commission from the La Dépêche Group Foundation, which in 2016 asked the artist for a series of small-format portraits. Some time later, the same client bought a large-format portrait of Olympe de Gouges for permanent display at the headquarters of La Dépêche du Midi newspaper in Toulouse. Discover more about this work on the article: International women’s day: Olympe de Gouges, feminist pioneer by Cécile Raynal.

The indicated dimensions are those of the sculpture including the bust and the wood base. Height of the wood base: 36,5 cm. Height of the sandstone bust: 16,5 cm.

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