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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun ( French: [elizabɛt lwiz viʒe lə bʁœ̃]; [a] 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), [1] also known as Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun or simply as Madame Le Brun, was a French painter who mostly specialized in portrait painting, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Apr 12, 2024 · Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter, one of the most successful women artists (unusually so for her time), especially known for her portraits of women. She notably painted Marie-Antoinette more than 20 times and made numerous self-portraits. Learn more about Vigee-Lebrun’s life and work.
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Although a portraitist, she submitted an allegorical subject to the Salon exhibition as her reception piece in the hope of entering the Académie as a history painter. Vigée Le Brun achieved significant critical and popular success in the Salons of 1783, 1785, 1787, and 1789. In the first two, she showed history paintings.
Learn about the life and work of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, a self-taught painter who became the leading portraitist of the 18th century. Discover how she captured the grace and elegance of her royal and aristocratic sitters, such as Marie Antoinette, in her distinctive style of portraiture.
- French
- April 16, 1755
- Paris, France
- March 30, 1842
Apr 2, 2014 · Learn about the life and work of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, one of the most popular portraitists in 18th century France. She painted 30 portraits of Marie Antoinette and traveled abroad during the Revolution.
Learn about the life and work of Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, one of the most celebrated portrait artists of the 18th century. She was the official painter of Marie Antoinette and a close friend of the queen, who helped her to achieve fame and recognition in France and Europe.
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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (16 April 1755—30 March 1842), also known as Madame Lebrun or Madame Le Brun, was a prominent French portrait painter of the late eighteenth century. She created more than 600 portraits, a considerable proportion of her total oeuvre of 800 paintings.
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