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

Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun : the odyssey of an artist in an age of revolution / / Gita May.

The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigee 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 Euro...

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May, Gita.
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Vigee-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842.
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Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Physical Description:237 p., 16 p. of plates :; ill. (some col.).
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Table of Contents:
  • Early years
  • First successes
  • Marriage
  • Marie-Antoinette's portraitist
  • Vigee Le Brun salonniere
  • 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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