Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… then over the next twenty years, criss-crossed the continent from 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 … her expression and adopt an array of guises). 8 Following the trend of allegorical portraiture that was fashionable in England at the time, Vigée Le Brun first represented Hart as a Bacchante (reclined, then dancing with a drum) and in 1792 … Germaine de Staël, among others, but found no further opportunities to associate with Britons. She would not return to England. Over the course of her exile, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun did find echoes of Ancien Régime sociability in the courts …
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