Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, “Self-Portrait” (1790), oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 31 7/8 inches, Gallerie degli Uffizi, Corridoio Vasariano, Florence (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) ...
I misread the title of this new account of the life and art of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) as “Darling” and thus, momentarily, feared it would perpetuate the caricature of the French ...
THE DAILY PIC (#1489): In so-called Old Master art, every female nude that was made by a woman also worked as a self-portrait – at least in the eyes of the male buyers and viewers of pictures. I came ...
15 x 20.9 cm. (5.9 x 8.2 in.) N. Jeffares, "Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun," Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, London 2006, online edition [http://www ...
In her new book, Twelve Paintings, writer Tal Sterngast explores Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, which is known for an exceptional collection of European paintings. She lands on twelve paintings from the ...
J. Tripier Le Franc, Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de Mme Le Brun, Paris 1828, pp. 179-180; E.L. Vigée Le Brun, Souvenirs de Madame Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Paris 1835, vol. I, pp. 23, 318; ...
Palm Beach artist Ralph Wolfe Cowan painted Donald Trump in tennis whites in 1989. The man who has fashioned himself as a voice of the people during the current presidential campaign, was delighted to ...
The Old Master painter Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was a trailblazer in her lifetime as the portraitist for Marie Antoinette among other aristocrats and royals in an era when few women were known ...
THE Souvenirs of Madame Vigée le Brun (née Elisabeth Louise Vigée), though shorn somewhat of their original proportions, and sufficiently ill translated, form an important and acceptable addition to ...
Marie Antoinette is an iconic, larger-than-life historical figure who has long embodied the French cultural and social milieu pre-Revolution. I am equally amused, disturbed, and fascinated by the ...
Angelica Kauffman and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun both blended the two prevalent movements of the late 18th century, gaining favor in the eyes of royalty of the day. Angelica Kauffman, Princess Augusta ...
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