Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… British social practices she revealed in her autobiography. People > Art and Literature Keywords Aristocracy Emigration French Revolution Portrait Travel Women Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842) was the daughter of Louis Vigée, a pastellist, and … 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 desire for sartorial freedom and …
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