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Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. 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.
Oct 6, 2005 · Elizabeth Vigee Lebrun was a fascinating woman and a prolific artist. She lived a rather dramatic, rather epic life. It strikes me as a tremendous shame that this slender book is one of the only biographies of the artist written in English, for it failed to do much more than skim the surface.
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Dec 30, 2021 · Watch part 2 of the documentary here: https://youtu.be/QGm5HM_TTc0Discover the extraordinary story of the life and art of Elizabeth Vigée Lebrun, official po...
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Dec 6, 2023 · Detail, Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun, Self-Portrait, 1790, oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm ( National Trust Collections) This self-portrait was painted in Rome; one of the first cities in which Vigée-LeBrun stayed during her decade-long exile from France. The artist sits in a relaxed pose at her easel and is positioned slightly off center.
Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun’s design of her 1789 self-portrait with her daughter echoes that of the Renaissance painter Raphael, a much-admired artist in eighteenth century France. Vigée Le Brun’s pose with her daughter creates a triangular composition that is reminiscent of Raphael’s Madonna and Child in The Small Cowper Madonna.
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 for the first time
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Jun 4, 2017 · The French Revolution . Elizabeth Vigee LeBrun’s royal connections became, suddenly, dangerous, as the French Revolution broke out. On the night, October 6, 1789, that mobs stormed the Versailles palace, Vigee LeBrun fled Paris with her daughter and a governess, making their way to Italy over the Alps.
