Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun : the odyssey of an artist in an age of revolution /

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The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) exerted her considerable charm to become the friend, and then official portraitist, of Marie Antoinette. Though profitable, this role made her a public and controversial figure, and in 1789 it precipitated her exile. In a Eur...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: May, Gita
Other Authors: Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, > 1755-1842.
Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth > 1755-1842
Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth.
Portrait painters > France > Biography.
Portraitistes > France > Biographies.
ART > History > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Artists, Architects, Photographers.
Portrait painters.
Malarze francuscy > 18-19 w.
Portrety > historia > Francja > 18-19 w.
France.
Biography
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Early years
  • First successes
  • Marriage
  • Marie-Antoinette's portraitist
  • Vigée Le Brun salonnière
  • 1789
  • Rome
  • Naples, Venice, Milan
  • Vienna
  • The Russian experience
  • Homeward bound
  • The English interlude
  • Return to imperial France
  • An active old age.

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