Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… emigrated to Italy, then over the next twenty years, criss-crossed the continent from Rome to Saint Petersburg, ending with a sojourn in England. Between 1835 and 1837, she published her Souvenirs , weaving artistic sociability into her chronicles of the lives of the European elite. This article discusses the many relationships Vigée Le Brun developed with Britons and British expatriates, as well as the opinions on British social practices she revealed in her … of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun’s Souvenirs (Paris, Fournier, vol. 3, 1837). Source: Gallica BnF. Vigée Le Brun’s alliances with the royal court and the Polignac family made her a target for slander in revolutionary libelles , forcing her to …
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