Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… of Giuseppina Grassini’, 1803, Musée Calvet, Avignon. Image Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, ‘Portrait of Lady Hamilton as a Sybyl’, 1792, Private collection. Image Front cover of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun’s Souvenirs (Paris, … Brun finally triumphed with a series of portraits Lord Hamilton, the British ambassador, had commissioned of his beloved Emma Hart (née Lyon). The future Lady Hamilton, whose physique evoked that of ancient Greek statues, had previously posed … (eds.), Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (Paris : Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Grand Palais, 2015). Contogouris, Ersy, Emma Hamilton and Late Eighteenth-Century European Art: Agency, Performance and Representation (New York/London: …
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