Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… Woman. Elisabeth 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 … Europe trekked through the mosaic of independent city-states that dotted the Italian peninsula. The British excelled at portraiture and were avid collectors of portraits. Consequently, they took a keen interest in Vigée Le Brun as one of the … her ability to spontaneously change 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, …
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