Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… curiosity as much as the Parisian and Italian collections had. She did enjoy receiving Sarah Siddons, an actress whose performances she admired (662), but lamented that Sundays in London ‘were as sad as the climate’ (659) and as great a … the whirligig of invitation exchanges, she hosted evenings (663) during which music was prominently featured, including performances from the two prima donnas of the Opera, Elizabeth Billington and Giuseppina Grassini, and the famous … Musées Nationaux/Grand Palais, 2015). Contogouris, Ersy, Emma Hamilton and Late Eighteenth-Century European Art: Agency, Performance and Representation (New York/London: Routledge, 2018). Fumaroli, Marc, Mundus Muliebris. Élisabeth Louise …
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