Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… ambiguous business ally. Their union marked the first step of her vertiginous rise in social status from a bourgeois woman of artistic origins to an intimate of the queen and France’s elite. 2 In the early 1780s, French fashion continued … historique de la vie de la citoyenne Lebrun (À Paris, chez l’auteur, An II). 2 . See Mary D. Sheriff, The Exceptional Woman. Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1996). 3 . … her own life story, sifting through her extraordinary personal trajectory, reconstructing her existence as a worldly woman and an artist who, armed only with her paintbrush, her daughter Julie by her side, criss-crossed all of Europe and …
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