Jane & Marcel (Dieulafoy) Painting

Part of the No Man's Land Series Jane Dieulafoy 1851 – 1916: was a French archaeologist, explorer, novelist and journalist. She was the wife of Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy. Together with her husband, she is known for her excavations at Susa. During her travels abroad, Jane Dieulafoy preferred to dress in men's clothing and wear her hair short, because it was otherwise difficult for a woman to travel freely in a Muslim country. She had also dressed as a man when she fought alongside Marcel Dieulafoy during the Franc-Prussian war and she kept dressing in men's clothing when she came back in France. This was against the law in France at the time, but when she returned from the Middle East she received special "permission de travestissement" from the prefect of police. It is difficult to determine Dieulafoy's motives for choosing to wear men's clothing. She wrote, "I only do this to save time. I buy ready-made suits and I can use the time saved this way to do more work" but, given that she includes many characters who cross-dress in her fiction (see her novels Volontaire and Frère Pélage, for example) she was clearly fascinated with the subject of cross-dressing and her motives appear to be more complex than mere convenience. Dieulafoy considered herself an equal to her husband, but was also fiercely loyal to him. She was opposed to the idea of divorce, believing it degraded women. During the First World War, she petitioned for allowing women a greater role in the military. She was a member of the jury of the prix Femina literary prize from its creation in 1904 until her death. (source: wikipedia) Original artwork available through The Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff

Painting:Oil on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:23.5 W x 20.5 H x 2 D in

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