Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… 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 Le Brun developed with Britons and British expatriates, as … vertiginous rise in social status from a bourgeois woman of artistic origins to an intimate of the queen and France’s elite. 2 In the early 1780s, French fashion continued to run towards novelty and elegance, but there was a burgeoning … 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 Le Brun developed with Britons and British expatriates, as …
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