The artist’s self-portrait with her daughter raised eyebrows with her open mouth. Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Self-Portrait with her Daughter, Julie (c. 1789). Found in the Collection of Musée du Louvre, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

48 x 37.5 cm. (18.9 x 14.8 in.) Presumably bequeathed by her to her cousin, Madame Justin Tripier Le Franc, née Eugénie Le Brun (1797-1872); Thence by inheritance to her son, Charles- Auguste Tripier ...

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This spellbinding first-person narrative, a reissue of the 1903 edition, has all the elements of a successful novel: its charismatic heroine (1756-1842) is an eminent and exceptionally productive ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tracks the change in total value of sales, as well as the total number of lots offered and sold annually in the art market. This chart shows whether Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun’s total sales are going up, ...