Among 400 new acquisitions last year to the Crocker Art Museum collections is a significant addition of 18th-century French portraiture.

Swiss-born artist Alexandre Roslin's 1783 portrait depciting fellow painter Anne Vallayer-Coster with her brush and palette in hand is now hanging at the Crocker. The work was donated by Alan Templeton, according to reports.

Roslin and Vallayer-Coster were both members of the French Royal Academy of Art and Sculpture. (And she was one of only four women accepted into the academy prior to the French Revoution.)

Vallayer-Coster had a reputation for still-lifes and floral works, which caught the eye of Queen Marie-Antoinette, according to Wikipedia. Following the "Reign of Terror" and downfall of the monarchy, Vallayer-Coster's royal patronage tapered off along with her career as an artist.