List of 999 women of the Heritage Floor / Natalie Barney

This list describes the place setting for Natalie Barney on the table of Judy Chicago's art installation The Dinner Party . It is part of the list of 999 women on the Heritage Floor who are assigned to the respective place settings on the table. The names of the 999 women are on the tiles of the Heritage Floor, which is arranged below the table and belongs to the art installation.

description

The installation consists of a three-sided table, each with 13 historical or mythological personalities, thus a total of 39 people, from prehistory to the women's rights movement . These people were assigned a place setting at the table, consisting of an individually designed table runner, an individually designed plate, a goblet, knife, fork, spoon and serviette. The first page of the table is devoted to prehistory up to the Roman Empire , the second to Christianization up to the Reformation and the third from the American Revolution to the women's movement. Each place setting on the table is assigned additional personalities who have received an entry on the tiles of the Heritage Floor, which occupies the space under the table and the center of the space between the sides of the table. This list includes the personalities assigned to Natalie Barney's place setting. Your seat is on the third side of the table.

Hints

In addition to the names as they are used in German transcription or in scientific usage, the list shows the spelling chosen by Judy Chicago on the tiles.

The information on women who do not yet have an article in the German-language Wikipedia is referenced by the individual references listed under comments . If individual information in the table is not referenced via the main article, additional individual references are given at the relevant point. If there are any discrepancies between the information provided in Wikipedia articles and the descriptions of the work of art on the Brooklyn Museum website , this will also be indicated under Comments.

Place setting for Natalie Barney

Natalie Barney by Alice Pike Barney (1896)

Natalie Barney was born on October 31, 1876 in Dayton , Ohio . Her father was the wealthy railroad owner Albert Clifford Barney and her mother the painter Alice Pike Barney . She received her education together with her sister Laura Clifford Barney at the French boarding school for girls Les Ruches in Fontainebleau from Mademoiselle Marie Souvestre . Financially independent, she moved from Washington to Paris in 1898and opened a literary salon there . She ran this until 1968 and every Friday an eccentric society met there, devoted to literary discussions and the discussion of theater projects, they also served the self-portrayal of its visitors. So Mata Hari could only be persuaded with difficulty to take a circus horse instead of riding an elephant in light clothes. Barney was known for her brave open lesbian relationships with poet Renée Vivien , dancer Liane de Pougy, and painter Romaine Brooks . She herself was an author and served as a model for a number of literary works.

The plate for Natalie Barney on the dinner party table is designed in a Tiffany pattern in the shape of a lily. Barney preferred the lily, a traditional symbol of femininity, but also because her first lover, Liane de Pougy, saw the lily as her symbol. Barney has taken this for himself. The color palette that was used to design the plate are shimmering blue and purple tones with gold accents. It is decorated with pearls. It is supposed to reflect the glamor and opulence of Barney's life, who, as a rich woman, was able to open and maintain a salon in Paris. The table runner takes up this opulence in its design. He imitates Art Nouveau and uses the color palette of the plate. The fabric, an Art Deco silk from the 1920s or 1930s, is designed in the shape of butterfly wings. Section edges of the wings are set with black glass beads. Transparent fabric covers the wings, this imitates the shimmering of the plate. The butterfly wings on the table runner do not extend to the edges of the runner, but unfold their shape freely from a given edge. With this, Chicago wanted to refer to Barney's free life from external constraints in sexual terms and in her salon.

Surname	Spelling on the tile	Date of birth	cultural spatial assignment	Remarks
Alice Pike Barney	Alice Pike Barney	1857	United States	Painter , patron and salonnière .
Anne Bonny	Anne Bonney	around 1699	Ireland	Pirate in the Caribbean.
Catherine de Vivonne, Marquise de Rambouillet	Catherine de Rambouillet	1588	France	Social personality and an important figure in the literary history of 17th century France.
Claudine Guérin de Tencin	Claudine de Tencin	1682	France	Salonnière in Paris in the Age of Enlightenment .
Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso	Cristina Trivulzio	1808	Italy	Italian nobles who played an important role in Italy's struggle for independence . She is also notable as a writer and journalist.
Djuna Barnes	Djuna Barnes	1892	United States	Writer and illustrator . She is one of the most important authors of literary modernism.
Eleanor Charlotte Butler ( Ladies of Llangollen )	Eleanor Butler	1739	Ireland , Wales	Settled with Sarah Ponsonby in 1778, against the conventions of her time in Wales . Her house was the destination of numerous nobles, politicians and writers.
Félicité de Genlis	Stephanie de Genlis	1746	France	Lady-in-waiting and writer.
Gertrude Stein	Gertrude Stein	1874	United States	Writer, publisher and art collector. Artist of classical literary modernism .
Julie de Lespinasse	Julie de Lespinasse	1732	France	Salonnière of the Enlightenment .
Julie chaise longue	Jeanne Recamier	1777	France	Salonnière . Since the early days of the consulate it had run a salon in Paris, which was an important meeting place for upper society, but also for critics and political opponents of Napoleon .
Lou Andreas-Salomé	Lou Andreas Salomé	1861	Germany , Russia	Writer , narrator, essayist and psychoanalyst from a Russian- German family.
Louise Labé	Louise Labé	1524	France	Author, poet.
Madeleine de Scudéry	Madeleine de Scudéry	1607	France	Writer of the baroque .
Madeleine de Souvré	Madeleine de Sable	1599	France	Nobles and Salonnière .
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné	Marie de Sévigné	1626	France	Members of the French aristocracy, who became known as an author through her letters , are counted among the classics of French literature .
Marie de Vichy Chamrond	Marie du Deffand	1697	France	Salonnière in the Age of Enlightenment .
Marie Sallé	Marie Sallé	around 1707	France	Dancer , contemporary and rival of Marie Camargo , was engaged at the Paris Opera .
Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin	Marie Geoffrin	1699	France	Author and salonnière of the Enlightenment .
Mary Read	Mary Read	around 1685	England , Jamaica	Pirate and privateer on Jack Rackham's ship .
Mata Hari	Mata Hari	1876	Netherlands	Before and during the First World War she was an exotic nude dancer, dancer and spy for the German secret service .
Ninon de Lenclos	Ninon de L'Enclos	1620	France	Courtesan and Salonnière . In France she is considered one of the most outstanding women of the 17th century.
Radclyffe Hall	Radclyffe Hall	1880	United Kingdom	Poet and writer. She wrote eight novels, including the well-known novel, The Well of Loneliness , about the lesbian Stephen Gordon .
Renée Vivien	Renee Vivien	1877	United Kingdom , France	Poet and one of the last representatives of symbolism .
Romaine Brooks	Romaine Brooks	1874	France , Italy	Painter and sculptor .
Sarah Ponsonby ( Ladies of Llangollen )	Sarah Ponsonby	1755	Ireland , Wales	Settled in 1778 with Eleanor Butler, against the conventions of her time in Wales . Her house was the destination of numerous nobles, politicians and writers.
Sophie de Condorcet	Sophie de Condorcet	1764	France	Salonnière from 1789 until the Reign of Terror, and again from 1799 until her death in 1822. Her salons were frequented by British and French intellectuals.