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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.
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Self Portrait in a Straw Hat, 1782. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more.
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Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun, Self-Portrait, 1790, oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence) The artist who created this opulent showpiece became famous and wealthy as Queen Marie-Antoinette’s official court painter. She was born to Louis Vigée and Jeanne Maissin in a bustling section of Paris.
Artwork Details. Overview. Exhibition History. Title: Self-Portrait. Artist: Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris) Date: 1790. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 39 3/8 × 31 7/8 in. (100 × 81 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Gallerie degli Uffizi, Corridoio Vasariano, Florence (1890, n. 1905)
Self-Portraits - Late 18th century. Technique. Oil on canvas. Size. 100x81 cm. Inventory. 1890 n. 1905. Daughter of the painter Louis Vigée, Elisabeth had married the greatest art dealer of the time, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun. In 1789 she was at the height of her career, when she left Paris to escape the revolutionary uprisings.
Self-portrait in a Straw Hat (French: Autoportrait au chapeau de paille, Dutch: Zelfportret met strohoed) is a self-portrait by the French painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, painted after 1782, in oil on linen, measuring 97.8 by 70.5 centimetres. It has belonged to the collection of the National Gallery in London since 1897. Context.
Self-portrait, 1790. Oil on canvas; 100 x 81 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Corridoio Vasariano, Florence (1905) This exhibition features the work of Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, one of the finest 18th-century French painters and among the most important of all women artists.
