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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French: [elizabɛt lwiz viʒe lə bʁœ̃]; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), 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 · Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (born April 16, 1755, Paris, France—died March 30, 1842, Paris) was a French painter, one of the most successful women artists (unusually so for her time), particularly noted for her portraits of women.
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Apr 2, 2014 · Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was one of the best-known and most fashionable portraitists of 18th century France; her clients included the queen Marie Antoinette.
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Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. Katharine Baetjer. Department of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. May 2016. Élisabeth Louise Vigée was born in Paris in 1755. Her father, Louis Vigée, was a pastelist and member of the artists’ guild, the Académie de Saint-Luc, while her mother, Jeanne Maissin, was a hairdresser ...
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was one of the great portrait artists of her day, easily the equal of Quentin de La Tour or Jean Baptiste Greuze. Born into relatively modest circumstances, she firmly established herself in society’s upper crust.
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755–1842) is one of the finest 18th-century French painters and among the most important of all women artists. An autodidact with exceptional skills as a portraitist, she achieved success in France and Europe during one of the most eventful, turbulent periods in European history.
Vigée Le Brun was the most important woman artist of her era and one of the most singular of any period. She was the daughter of a painter but largely self-taught. In 1776 she married the expert and dealer Jean-Baptiste Pierre Le Brun (1748–1813) and in 1778 she was summoned to Versailles by Marie Antoinette (1755–1793), who sat for her ...
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