Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… Vigée Le Brun’s Souvenirs (Paris, Fournier, vol. 3, 1837). Source: Gallica BnF. Image Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, ‘Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat’, After 1782, National Gallery, NG 1653. Abstract Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun was the official portraitist of Marie-Antoinette and a worldly artist who excelled at constructing representations of herself and of others. In October 1789, she emigrated to Italy, then over the next twenty years, criss-crossed the continent … ‘one of the glories of our sex’ ( Souvenirs , 358). She enjoyed being seen with Kauffmann at the opera and finding herself seated beside the artist at official receptions. Although she socialised with other French émigrés while in Rome, …
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