Ekaterina Dashkova and Anna Jabłonowska, the Eighteenth-Century Proto-Feminists, and Collectors: Two Portraits

• In Event: Art and Architecture: Made by Women

Abstract

Ekaterina Dashkova (née Vorontsova, 1743-1810) and Anna Paulina Jabłonowska (née Sapieha, 1728-1800) were the extraordinary women who represented two opposite states, the Russian empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. They never met each other but shared the common passion for collecting art, artifacts and scientific objects and exemplified a concept of proto-feminism. The paper will explore the emergence of these early women-collectors in the context of the turmoilous eighteenth-century political and cultural history.

Author

• Hanna Chuchvaha, Independent scholar