Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… various excursions, delighting in the luminosity and landscapes she discovered and the popular celebrations she found so picturesque. Ever the fashionable lady, yet with an eye to simplicity and practicality, she began sporting a green veil … of Matlock, in Derbyshire, and Tunbridge Wells, in Kent. She found Brighton ‘lovely’ (678) and Bath ‘noble and picturesque’ (679). But for all that, her writings once again leave us with the impression of a woman genuinely perplexed … Essais (Paris : Publications de l’Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, 2012). In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology On Picturesque Beauty, 1792 Vigée Le Brun by Farington (1802) … Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun was the official portraitist of …
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