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 |
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English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842.
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Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842 |
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Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth 1755-1842 |
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Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth. |
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Portrait painters -- France -- Biography
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ART -- History -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
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Portrait painters
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Malarze francuscy -- 18-19 w.
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Portrety -- historia -- Francja -- 18-19 w.
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France
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842.
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ISBN |
9780300130003 |
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0300130007 |
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9786611722401 |
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6611722408 |
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