Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, “Self-Portrait” (1790), oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 31 7/8 inches, Gallerie degli Uffizi, Corridoio Vasariano, Florence (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) ...
I misread the title of this new account of the life and art of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) as “Darling” and thus, momentarily, feared it would perpetuate the caricature of the French ...
There’s no way that the men who saw these two nudes did not, in their little Homo erectus brains, imagine that they might just be getting an undressed glimpse of the artist who painted them. Women ...
In her new book, Twelve Paintings, writer Tal Sterngast explores Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, which is known for an exceptional collection of European paintings. She lands on twelve paintings from the ...
THE Souvenirs of Madame Vigée le Brun (née Elisabeth Louise Vigée), though shorn somewhat of their original proportions, and sufficiently ill translated, form an important and acceptable addition to ...
J. Tripier Le Franc, Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de Mme Le Brun, Paris 1828, pp. 179-180; E.L. Vigée Le Brun, Souvenirs de Madame Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Paris 1835, vol. I, pp. 23, 318; ...
The Old Master painter Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was a trailblazer in her lifetime as the portraitist for Marie Antoinette among other aristocrats and royals in an era when few women were known ...
Marie Antoinette is an iconic, larger-than-life historical figure who has long embodied the French cultural and social milieu pre-Revolution. I am equally amused, disturbed, and fascinated by the ...
15 x 20.9 cm. (5.9 x 8.2 in.) N. Jeffares, "Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun," Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, London 2006, online edition [http://www ...
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