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By Gita May

ISBN-10: 0300108729

ISBN-13: 9780300108729

The most desirable girl artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755—1842) exerted her substantial appeal to turn into the good friend, after which legit portraitist, of Marie Antoinette. notwithstanding ecocnomic, this position made Vigée Le Brun a public and debatable determine, and in 1789 it brought about her exile. In a Europe torn by means of strife and revolution, she however controlled to thrive as an self sustaining, self-supporting artist, doggedly establishing studios in Rome, Naples, Venice, Milan, Vienna, St. Petersburg, and London. lengthy missed or brushed aside, Vigée Le Brun’s images now cling within the Louvre, in a room in their personal, in addition to in all best artwork museums of the world.

This gripping biography tells the tale of a singularly talented and high-spirited girl throughout the progressive period and explores the improvement and importance of her artwork. The e-book additionally recounts the private and non-private lives of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, connecting  her with such personalities of her age as Catherine the good, Napoleon, and Benjamin Franklin, and surroundings her reports within the context of latest ecu politics and tradition. A beneficiant choice of illustrations, together with 16 of Vigée Le Brun’s pix provided in complete colour, completes this unparalleled volume.

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