… Rome to Saint Petersburg, ending with a sojourn in England. Between 1835 and 1837, she published her Souvenirs , weaving artistic sociability into her chronicles of the lives of the European elite. This article discusses the many relationships Vigée … wed Jean-Baptiste Pierre Le Brun, a talentless artist but skilled paintings and antiquities dealer, who encouraged her artistic endeavours. Though they would divorce in 1794, and despite the events surrounding the Revolution, 1 Le Brun …