Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… 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 the elder sister of Étienne … and were avid collectors of portraits. Consequently, they took a keen interest 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 … she began sporting a green veil to protect her eyes from the blazing Neapolitan sun, setting the fashion for the English women on holiday (416). In 1792, while in Turin, she learned of the September Massacres in the prisons. Her intention had …
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