The Memoirs of Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun

By Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun, Siân Evans (translator),

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Elisabeth Louise Vige´e-Le Brun (1755-1842) was a French portrait painter during an age of revolution. In 1778, at the age of 23, she painted her first portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette. She left France in 1789 and travelled and painted through-out Europe. According to a detailed list she provided in…

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What a life Elisabeth Vigée - Le Brun had! It looks like a wonderful novel. She was a great French portrait painter (she painted 660 portraits!) during an age of revolution.

In 1778, at the age of 23, she painted her first portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette. 

Elisabeth Vigée- Le Brun became one of the rare woman to be member of the prestigious French Royal Academy of paintings. After being exploited by an unfaithful husband she had to face the French Revolution.

She…

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