Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… The Exceptional 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 … taught her to strike dramatic poses (she was well noted by contemporaries for 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 … ‘lovely’ (678) and Bath ‘noble and picturesque’ (679). But for all that, her writings once again leave us with the impression of a woman genuinely perplexed by the charms of English sociability. We learn in a letter to her brother that at …
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