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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 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 · 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.
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.
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.
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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.
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