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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.
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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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.
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.
- French
- April 16, 1755
- Paris, France
- March 30, 1842
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. French Painter, Portraitist. Born: April 16, 1755 - Paris, France. Died: March 30, 1842 - Paris, France. Movements and Styles: The Rococo. , Neoclassicism. , Grand Manner Portraiture. "But I could now paint no longer; my broken spirit, bruised with so many horrors, shut itself entirely to my art." 1 of 3.
- French
- April 16, 1755
- Paris, France
- March 30, 1842
She is elegantly presented in a straw hat in the English style and an embroidered muslin dress of the sort pioneered by Marie Antoinette. From France, Vigée Le Brun fled to Italy, where in 1790 she settled in Rome and painted a self-portrait that she later contributed to the grand-ducal gallery at the Uffizi.
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was one of the foremost portraitists in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first three decades of the nineteenth. She belonged to the long succession of European courtier-artists that began with Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) and closed with John Singer Sargent (1856-1925).
