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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842)

Autor de The Memoirs of Madame Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1755-1789

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Créditos de la imagen: Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat by Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, after 1782.

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Nombre canónico
Vigée-Lebrun, Élisabeth-Louise
Otros nombres
Vigée Le Brun, Élisabeth
Vigée, Marie Louise Élisabeth
Vigée, Marie Élisabeth Louise
Fecha de nacimiento
1755-04-16
Fecha de fallecimiento
1842-03-30
Género
female
Nacionalidad
France
Lugar de nacimiento
Paris, France
Lugar de fallecimiento
Paris, France
Lugares de residencia
Paris, France
Louveciennes, France
Ocupaciones
painter
memoirist
salonniere
Relaciones
Antoinette, Marie (patron)
Organizaciones
Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture
Biografía breve
Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun, also known as Madame Le Brun, was born in Paris, France. Her parents were Jeanne and Louis Vigée, a portraitst who was her first art teacher. In 1760, at age five, she was sent to a convent for her education, and remained there for six years. By the time she reached her early teens, she was earning money painting portraits. In 1776, she married Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun, an art dealer, with whom she had a daughter. She began exhibiting her work at their home in Paris and held a salon there that helped win her many new and important contacts. Unfortunately, her husband turned out to be a spendthrift who gambled away most of the money she made. Vigée Le Brun created a name for herself in Parisian society by becoming the portrait painter to Queen Marie Antoinette beginning in 1779. At the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, she left France and lived abroad for 12 years, traveling widely to paint many European aristocrats, actors, and writers. In 1801, she moved to London, where she painted portraits of the English court and of Lord Byron. She eventually returned to Paris. Vigée Le Brun was one of the most successful women artists and was elected to art academies in 10 cities. In her career, she painted some 660 portraits, including many self-portraits, and was particularly known for her portraits of women. In addition, she created about 200 landscapes. Her works are in the permanent collections of major museums around the world, such as the Louvre in Paris, Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, National Gallery in London, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and in many private collections. In 1835-1837, when she was in her 80s, Vigée Le Brun published her memoirs in three volumes (Souvenirs), which also contained many pen portraits and advice for young portrait artists.

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Love reading original letters, a bit dry but interesting to get to know the person. She was a name dropper and seemed to sponge off many friends (maybe that wasn't unusual in that time or because she was a woman alone). She loved her daughter to a fault, she didn't seem to be a kind person (daughter) and married against her mother's wishes and Mama turned out be right. Authentic and got to understand the restrictions on women but she seemed to dismiss some of the restraints because she had a daughter to raise and an absent husband.… (más)
 
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almin | 2 reseñas más. | Aug 9, 2022 |
The works of French Rococo Neoclassicist painter Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun [Madame Lebrun] (16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842). Composite 2 Edition. This is the standard print edition of Book CXVII in The Zedign Art Series of monographs of the masters, published by The Zedign House. A dedicated webpage of Vigée Le Brun's book and artworks is maintained at https://books.zedign.com/zas/117.html
 
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zedign | Mar 19, 2022 |
The works of French Rococo Neoclassicist painter Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun [Madame Lebrun] (16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842). Composite 4 Edition. This is the reference print edition of Book CXVII in The Zedign Art Series of monographs of the masters, published by The Zedign House. A dedicated webpage of Vigée Le Brun's book and artworks is maintained at https://books.zedign.com/zas/117.html
 
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zedign | Mar 19, 2022 |
Not being knowledgeable about painters, I admit to not having heard of Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun before reading this, so didn’t no what to expect from her memoirs.

I hoped for some insights to the times she lived in, which is exactly what I got. In fact, I got more than expected, as not only did she paint many royals and nobles, they treated her with great respect. Madame Vigée-Le Brun was a celebrity in her time.

When she described some of her paintings of Marie Antoinette, I at once recognised them from pictures I’ve seen online.

She offers glimpses of history that I haven’t previously read or heard of, including instances of Marie Antoinette, Catherine II of Russia, and Napoleon.

Madame Vigée-Le Brun made a good impression on me. I like her personality and subtle sense of humour.

This is one of several memoirs I’ve now read by French ladies of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and one thing they all have in common is the gift of eloquent and engaging writing. They have the ability to make trivial matters sound interesting.
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PhilSyphe | 2 reseñas más. | Feb 10, 2021 |

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