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Author May, Gita.

Title Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun : the odyssey of an artist in an age of revolution / Gita May
Published New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2005]
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Description 1 online resource (237 pages, 16 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Early years -- First successes -- Marriage -- Marie-Antoinette's portraitist -- Vigée Le Brun salonnière -- 1789 -- Rome -- Naples, Venice, Milan -- Vienna -- The Russian experience -- Homeward bound -- The English interlude -- Return to imperial France -- An active old age
Summary The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) exerted her considerable charm to become the friend, and then official portraitist, of Marie Antoinette. Though profitable, this role made her a public and controversial figure, and in 1789 it precipitated her exile. In a Europe torn by strife and revolution, this singularly gifted and high-spirited woman nevertheless managed to thrive as an independent, self-supporting artist, doggedly setting up studios in Rome, Naples, Venice, Milan, Vienna, St. Petersburg, and London. Long overlooked or dismissed, Vigée Le Brun's portraits now hang in the Louvre, in a room of their own, as well as in all leading art museums of the world. Illustrations include sixteen of her portraits presented in full color.--From publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-220) and index
Notes English
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Subject Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842.
Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842
Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth 1755-1842
Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth.
Portrait painters -- France -- Biography
ART -- History -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
Portrait painters
Malarze francuscy -- 18-19 w.
Portrety -- historia -- Francja -- 18-19 w.
France
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842.
ISBN 9780300130003
0300130007
9786611722401
6611722408