Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… 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 … in Vigée Le Brun as one of the very few women to have been honoured by the Royal Academy of Painting in Paris. Towards the end of 1789, on Vigée Le Brun’s first stay in Rome, she met frequently with Angelica Kauffmann, a Swiss painter … had been to return to France, but as the new wave of French émigrés began to surge through Italy, she turned eastward to Vienna, making her way to Berlin and then onto Saint Petersburg, where she had little contact with British …
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