Julian Barnes has said that “it doesn’t really matter whether an artist has a dull or an interesting life, except for promotional purposes.” Well, lucky for the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa – ...
The court painter to Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun, was the first internationally celebrated woman artist. But only now, more than 170 years after her death, has ...
‘Why have there been no great women artists?” The oeuvre of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun seems the perfect rebuttal to the question famously posed by US art historian Linda Nochlin in 1971. Élisabeth ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When a blockbuster calls, truth in advertising is the first victim. The Met subtitles its dazzling Vigée Le Brun show ...
The court painter to Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun, was the first internationally celebrated woman artist. But only now, more than 170 years after her death, has ...
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