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Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, aussi appelée Élisabeth Vigée, Élisabeth Le Brun ou Élisabeth Lebrun, née Élisabeth Louise Vigée le 16 avril 1755 à Paris, et morte dans la même ville le 30 mars 1842, est une artiste peintre française, considérée comme une grande portraitiste de son temps.
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French: [elizabɛt lwiz viʒe lə bʁœ̃]; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun or simply as Madame Le Brun, was a French painter who mostly specialized in portrait painting, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was one of the great portrait artists of her day, easily the equal of Quentin de La Tour or Jean Baptiste Greuze. Born into relatively modest circumstances, she firmly established herself in society’s upper crust.
She is elegantly presented in a straw hat in the English style and an embroidered muslin dress of the sort pioneered by Marie Antoinette. From France, Vigée Le Brun fled to Italy, where in 1790 she settled in Rome and painted a self-portrait that she later contributed to the grand-ducal gallery at the Uffizi.
French, 1755 - 1842. Vigée Le Brun, Marie Louise Élisabeth; Vigée-Lebrun, Élisabeth Louise. Biography. Works of Art.
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, also known as Madame Le Brun, was a prominent French portrait painter of the late 18th century. Her artistic style is generally considered part of the...
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Jan 3, 2024 · In 1778 Vigée Le Brun painted a portrait of the queen, Marie-Antoinette, and soon became her close friend and supporter. Through her relationship with the queen, Vigée Le Brun realized her greatest ambition: membership in the prestigious and almost entirely male Académie Royale.
