Did you click the WSJ link?
750,000 isn’t double 450,000. It is only 1.666x
No, I didn’t click the link. When I tried there is a paywall. “Underlying power structures” from the artnet article is definitely identity politics, but it is a good thing to remember the history of people like Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun and Artemisia Gentileschi because it teaches us how to deal with the soy boys who are basically causing most of the identity politics nonsense. They basically are shooting themselves in the foot with the good female artists (not the terrible ones) and I don’t think they have figured that out yet, which is fine by me. Entrepreneurs like Jean-Baptiste Pierre Le Brun also show how conservative men respond to having talented wives.