Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… 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 desire for sartorial freedom and sobriety. 3 Vigée 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 … Vigée-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1996). 3 . Portraiture and fashion reciprocally influenced the other. See À la mode. L’art de paraître au XVIIIe siècle, L’Objet d’art. Hors-Série …
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