Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… 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 Le Brun developed with Britons and British … Le Brun’s portraits of the queen and of Yolande de Polignac contributed to the fashion for the white chemise gown in Europe. 1 . Jean-Baptiste Le Brun, Précis historique de la vie de la citoyenne Lebrun (À Paris, chez l’auteur, An II). 2 … libelles , forcing her to flee at the first stirrings of the Revolution. Her peregrinations took her around Europe, ending only some sixteen years later when she made her way back to France. From 1789 to 1805, throughout the long …
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