Berthe Morisot's Autoportrait, 1885
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Morisot is something else in the best possible reading of that phrase. Here's just one reason why, so I don't ramble: "Je ne crois pas qu'il y ait jamais un homme traitant une femme d'égale à égal et c'est tout ce que j'aurais demandé car je sais que je les vaux." - her diary
Roughly (I've not done translations in awhile): "I don't believe there's ever been a man who treats a woman as his equal and it's all that I will have asked for, because I know I'm worth them all."
She's so assertive and regal here. That gaze, that posture.
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