Canadian artist Mary Hiester Reid’s (1854–1921) Studio in Paris depicts her working space in France where she studied from 1888 to 89, and again in 1896, at the Académie Colarossi. Though the painting portrays a domestic interior, a subject considered to be appropriate for women artists in the Victorian era, more importantly the work demonstrates the artist’s view that such spaces are also places for reading, thinking, studying, and working. Studio in Paris was featured in the 2015–16 touring exhibition The Artist Herself: Self-Portraits by Canadian Historical Women Artists (co-organized by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston and the Art Gallery of Hamilton), curated by Alicia Boutilier and Tobi Bruce. They suggest that this represents a self-portrait or, more broadly speaking, a representation of Hiester Reid’s own artistic identity.