Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… In her Souvenirs (written and published long after Hart’s death), she claims 6 to have counselled Hart on how to dress (in white tunics and coiffed in a schall ) 7 and taught her to strike dramatic poses (she was well noted by … p. 36. 7 . Vigée Le Brun, an arbiter of fashion, drew from her artist’s wardrobe for the costumes and accessories to dress her models in. Such elements are characteristic of her pictorial style and can be seen in many of her paintings. (À … recounts in her biography of Georgiana Cavendish that the elegant duchess introduced the British to the light muslin dress à la Créole in which Vigée Le Brun had painted Marie-Antoinette in 1783, and that it was an immediate success. See …
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