Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… revealed in her autobiography. People > Art and Literature Keywords Aristocracy Emigration French Revolution Portrait Travel Women Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842) was the daughter of Louis Vigée, a pastellist, and the elder sister of … 1835 and 1837, she published her Souvenirs , 4 three volumes interspersed with letters, reminiscences, stories of her travels, and a list of her paintings. 4 . Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Souvenirs. 1755-1842, ed. Geneviève Haroche-Bouzinac … and it would remain one of her ‘favourite works’ (440). She continued to exhibit it on important stops in her long travels throughout Europe, and upon her return to Paris in 1805, gave it a prominent place in her studio. 9 In Naples, …
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