Inspiration divine : Lady Hamilton en sibylle par Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun designated her portrait of Lady Hamilton as a Sibyl (1791–92) as one of her favourite works. Despite this, "her" Sibyl, as she simply and affectionately called it in her Souvenirs, remains little studied by art historians. This painting is heavily permeated by the tensions that seem to have existed between Vigée-Le Brun and Hamilton. It displays a number of departures from the conventions and expectations regarding portraiture, to such an extent that the artist seems to have tried to empty the canvas of her sitter’s presence. Grounded in Vigée-Le Brun’s own writings and a detailed reading of the painting, this paper contends that Lady Hamilton as a Sibyl should be understood within a wider discussion on the nature of genius. It argues that this painting can be read as a statement on feminine genius at the very moment the notion of genius began to acquire its modern meaning. Vigée-Le Brun displaced Hamilton from the work in order to project herself into it, in a process of identification with the sibyl and affirmation of her own creative genius.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".