Albertine Necker de Saussure's work l'Education Progressive is acknowledged as an educational classic and was influential in nineteenth-century England. She was active in the Groupe de Coppet (Coppet group), a salon that flourished in the years between the French Revolution and the Swiss Restoration, and she has been credited with spreading the spirit of the Coppet to a new generation of Genevan aristocrats, including Adolphe Pictet. The portrait of Albertine sitting next to her knitting basket is considered a most appropriate symbol of a late Enlightenment Genevoise.
