Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… Vigée Le Brun’s Souvenirs (Paris, Fournier, vol. 3, 1837). Source: Gallica BnF. Vigée Le Brun’s alliances with the royal court and the Polignac family made her a target for slander in revolutionary libelles , forcing her to flee at the first … Following English proprieties, the women were segregated from the men during musical evenings, and the Napoleonic court, highly militarised and made up in large part of parvenus, seemed to lack elegance and refinement. Vigée Le Brun … Elizabeth Craven (née Berkeley). She browsed the art collections housed in sumptuous residences, such as Hampton Court, where she admired Raphael’s cartoons, Knowles Castle, then owned by the Duchess of Dorset, Stowe, the country seat …
Aristocracy | Emigration | French Revolution | Portrait | Travel | Women
Encyclopedia