#Elizabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun

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[Image description: The painting, 'La Paix ramenant l’Abondance,' by painter Elizabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, which depicts two women wearing extravagant fabrics gazing at one another. One woman shows an exposed breast, the other woman holds her. They pose together over an array of fruit. Superimposed over the painting is a tumblr text-post, edited blackout-poetry style to read, "Sooo u want women? interesting notion."]

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Sooo u want women? interesting notion 😏

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Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

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The Scandalous Chemise of Marie Antoinette

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1783-) • Marie Antoinette in a Chemise Dress • 1783

Just as John Singer Sargent did some 100 years later, Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun often befriended her portrait subjects, engaging their trust so as to create authentic portraits that captured not just the likeness but the spirit of the sitter. Such was the case with Vigée Le Brun's Marie Antoinette in a Chemise Dress.

Vigée Le Brun was the official court painter. She painted Marie Antoinette approximately 30 times. For the "chemise dress" painting, it's unclear whose idea it was that the queen depart from traditional, more formal dress and wear a casual, unstructured dress instead. Perhaps Vigée Le Brun persuaded her to wear the white chemise or they arrived at the decision together.

The dress itself is made from cotton muslin instead of the French silk that royalty usually had their garments made from. It is tied comfortably at the waist with a yellow sash. The only ornamentation are the puffed sleeves and the ruffled neckline. Marie wears very little makeup and no jewelry.

Despite its simple elegance, the painting was met with much scorn and disapproval when it was shown at Vigée Le Brun's first Académie Salon. Though the garment was designed to be a dress, its lack of structure resembled an undergarment and was thus considred scandalous. Further, it was considered unpatriotic that the queen of France wore imported cotton rather than French Lyonnaise silk. Vigée Le Brun was forced to remove the portrait from the Salon and it was replaced with this one:

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755–1842). Marie Antoinette with a Rose • 1783

By the end of the 18th century, the chemise dress was hugely popular and worn for portraits by many prominent women in and outside of France. Marie Antoinette's fashion faux pas led to a fashion craze which is said by some historians to have been a catalyst for the slave trade, as the demand for cotton grew exponentially.

Right: Jacques Louis David (French, 1748-1825) • Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife • 1788.

Left: George Romney (British/English, 1734-1802) • Mrs. Billington as Saint Cecilia • 1787-88

The chemise dress was to evolve to an empire waist and a narrower skirt, creating the style we now call The Regency fashion era.

[clandestinegardenias]

On my knitter!Crozier bullshit and thinking so long and hard about what he would knit for each of the crew ahead of their 800 mile walk to encourage them and keep them warm, so here are some selections (with pattern links)

Jopson:

Toddler Mittens on a String by Ruth Bendig

that's crozier's special little guy!! some cozy wee mittens connected by a string so he doesn't lose them <3

Irving:

Fallen Halo by Pam Grushkin

he doesn't tell irving the name of this particular pattern. just that it will keep his neck warm.

Little:

So Basic Scarf by Olguine Brutus

sorry ned :(

Goodsir:

Padded Hiking Socks by J Kolette Beckert

keep your doctor healthy by keeping his feet warm and dry. with added padding for the soles to keep them, uh, nice and tender

Tozer:

Hunting Gloves by Elizabeth Green Musselman

he's their best shot. they need his hands warm and his trigger finger nimble.

Fitzjames:

Boyfriend Sweater by Lene Holme Samsoe

a fine gauge baselayer that will rest directly against fitzjames' skin at all times to keep him warm and protect his bullet wounds. unfortunately crozier's on sleeve island when they leave so it becomes more of a vest.

Hickey:

Knife Coaster by Melanie Thompson

he has to knit SOMETHING for hickey cause it would look bad not to, but he also wants him to die so it can't be something actually useful. the knife pattern is also subtly calling him a fucking backstabber. hickey thinks maybe it's phallic and this is crozier trying to say he wants to fuck

Bonus under the cut

He WANTS to knit Fitzjames the A La Reine Blouse by Savannah Gerlach. It'll have to wait until after they're rescued, though.

Description from pattern website: This blouse is inspired by an infamous portrait of Marie Antoinette of France, painted by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, which appeared in a short-lived exhibition in the Musée du Louvre in 1783. The queen’s depiction in a gossamer shift (what would have then been akin to her nightgown) shocked the public, and the painting was removed shortly after its debut. Today we know this style as the “chemise à la reine.”

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Elisabeth Maria Filipina Mniszech, 1797, de Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (París, 1755-1842). Óleo, lienzo, 48,5 x 44,2 cm, firmado y fechado abajo a la izquierda: Petersbourg / Vigée / Le Brun / 1797.

ZD S 1993002, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana.

La pintura está firmada y fechada en la parte inferior izquierda Petersbourg / Vigée / Le Brun / 1797 y muestra a Elizabeth Isabella Mniszech (1787–1830), hija de una de las sobrinas del rey polaco Stanislaus II August Poniatowski. Fue pintado durante la estancia de la artista en San Petersburgo y también se menciona en sus Memorias. Vigée-Lebrun gozó de la estima del rey Estanislao I de agosto, de su hermana la condesa Louise Zamojska y de su hija, la condesa Urzula Mniszech. Una copia de nuestra pintura en miniatura fue reproducida por J. Mycielski y S. Wasylewski en Portrety polskie Elżbiety Vigée-Lebrun, Lwów-Poznań, 1927.

Información e imagen de la web de la National Gallery of Slovenia.

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Like most female artists of European history, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun learned to paint from her father who was also an artist; her husband, an art dealer, helped market her work. It was Vigée Le Brun’s own innovative portrait style as well as her famously friendly personality that rocketed her to one of the most prolific portrait artists of the 18th century. She rose to fame through her friendship with the French queen Marie Antoinette, but she was forced to flee the country when the French Revolution began. For 19 years she traveled Europe painting portraits of members of high society everywhere she went, including Vienna, the home of the Countess Maria Theresia Czernin seen here. Vigée Le Brun was known for her ability to capture her sitters’ personality in paint and even normalized smiling in formal portraits. She often styled her female sitters herself, stylings that sometimes influenced elite fashion in France and the rest of Europe. The shawl we see in this image belonged to the artist and can be seen in multiple portraits. Vigée Le Brun is credited with helping to popularize shawls as a fashion accessory and inspiring women to wear their hair down. 

See this portrait now on view in our European Art galleries. 

Posted by Elizabeth Treptow Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755-1842). Portrait of Countess Maria Theresia Czernin, 1793. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Lilla Brown in memory of her husband, John W. Brown, Mrs. Watson B. Dickerman, A. Augustus Healy, Helen Babbott MacDonald, Charles H. Schieren, and L.L. Themal, by exchange , 2018.53

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Лондонская Национальная галерея

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Louise Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755 - 1842): Portrait of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Alekseyevna (1798) (via The State Hermitage Museum)

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Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Louis XVI, and Marie Antoinette. The painting is progress is “Marie Antoinette with a Rose” by Vigée Le Brun. From Lady Oscar (1979).

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Today (16th october) is the anniversary of Marie Antoinette's death, so let's talk about her most famous yet controversial portrait.

[Marie Antoinette en chemise, 1783 portrait by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun // The Versailles secret of Marie Antoinette, 2018]

In 1783, the famous female artist Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun painted Marie Antoinette in a simple cotton gown known as a robe de gaulle.

The Queen didn't wear any jewels or embellishments, just a wide-brimmed straw hat tied with a ribbon band, topped with a few relatively modest plumes.

The scene is refreshingly natural when compared to the ornateness of the typical Rococo-era portrait. The gown gives off “an aesthetic of rustic simplicity,” writes Katy Werlin in Clothing and Fashion. But it was too much simple and "poor" at the time.

The backlash was immediate at the palace. Salon visitors demanded the portrait be removed from public view.

“Vigée-Lebrun unwittingly showed her [Antoinette] as an immodest woman, providing enemies with yet more evidence against the queen.” -The Exceptional Woman: Elizabeth Vigée-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art

There were many who saw the garment as alarmingly scandalous. It closely resembled a chemise — the simple dress that served as a base garment for women at the time. In other words, the queen appeared to be posing in her underwear. This accusation gave the cotton gown the name by which it is now most commonly known: the “chemise à la reine,” or the “chemise of the queen.”

One critic wrote about the portrait:

"Many people have found it offensive to see these august persons revealed to the public wearing clothes reserved for the privacy of the palace."

The contemporary criticism against the portrait was not just that the Queen was wearing these casual fashions at all, but also that she dared to show herself wearing one in a public portrait display that was meant to be reserved for royal portraits, which clearly signified the wearer's status through sumptuous and royal clothing.

The portrait bears no markers of "queen" and indeed, if we did not know who the sitter was, it could be any one of the well-to-do women from this era.

So Vigée-Le Brun was forced to paint another potrait quickly, more appropriate this time, in attempt to calm the controversy.

She painted many copies. However some of original elements are retained: Antoinette wears a hat and holds a rose while wearing a bertha with two flounces and a skirt with two flounces.

But this time the dress is the essence of a French Queen.

Still it was Marie Antoinette herself who wanted that natural and simple look in her portrait, maybe as rebellion to the ancien régime.

Thanks to https://vivelaqueen.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-chemise-portrait-in-le-versailles.html?m=1

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Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

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Painting of Anna Ivanovna Tolstoy 1796 by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

Countess Anna Ivanovna Tolstaya, née Princess Baryatinskaya (December 5, 1774 - April 12, 1825) was the sister of prince Ivan Baryatinsky, wife of Marshal Nikolai Alexandrovich Tolstoy (1765–1816), a close friend of the Empress Elizabeth Alexeyevna and memoirist Countess Varvara Golovina.

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Sketch of Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun’s self portrait! It was fun to mess around

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Here's a tribute to June 10th 2012 birthday and rest in peace Angels Sophie Hélène Béatrix de France, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte de France,Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun,Marie Antoinette with a Rose,Marie Antoinette,Louis XVI,Marie-Thérèse Charlotte,Louis Antoine of France, Duke of AngoulêmeLouis Joseph Xavier François,Louis XVII,Louis XVIII,Charles X,Maria Theresa of Savoy,Sophie d'Artois,Louis, Dauphin of France, Aubreigh Paige Wyatt, Ava Jordan Wood, Leiliana Wright, Star Hobson, Saffie-Rose Brenda Roussos, Lily Peters, Olivia Pratt Korbel, Elizabeth Shelley, Sara Sharif, Charlotte Figi, Jersey Dianne Bridgeman, Macie Hill, Sloan Mattingly, Audrii Cunningham, Athena Strand, Athena Brownfield, Leocadia Zorrilla, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Josefa Bayeu, Francisco Javier Goya Bayeu,Charlotte Eckerman, Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller, La Belle Italienne, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Anne Isabella Noel Byron, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Lady Elizabeth Finch-Hatton, Queen Elizabeth II, Barbara Shelley, Percy Shelley, Lady Elizabeth Pilfold Shelley, Anne Neville, John Winthrop, Mary Forth Winthrop, Margaret Tyndall Winthrop, Thomasine Winthrop, Elisabeth of Denmark, Anna von Brandenburg, Elisabeth von Brandenburg, Sir John Talbot, Elizabeth Wrottesley Talbot, Richard III, Edward of Middleham, Margaret Plantagenet, Anne Plantagenet Saint Leger, Elizabeth of York Plantagenet de la Pole Duchess of Suffolk, Edmund Plantagenet, Richard of York 3rd Duke of York, Lady Cecily de Neville Plantagenet, Katharine of Aragon, Henry Tudor, Elizabeth I, Isabella de Aragon, Juan de Aragón, Miguel da Paz, Prince of Asturias, Jacklyn Jaylen “Jackie” Cazares, Chief Thunder Cloud, Chief Yellow Thunder, Ernest White Thunder, Wa-Kin-Yan-Waste “Andrew” Good Thunder, Maggie Snana Brass, Catherine Violet Hubbard,

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Top 5 paintings of women

ooohh!! exciting!! i have a terrible memory for this sort of thing but ill try and think of my favourites off the top of my head

1. William Holman Hunt, The Lady of Shalott, c.1892.

I don’t really have any interesting commentary on this, but me and my friend Raisa saw this in person and went CRAZY about the red/green contrast in this picture - I feel like Holman Hunt can be a but hit and miss (coughs THE SCAPEGOAT) when it comes to colour schemes but this one and The Light of the World really absolutely slap.

2.  Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat, 1782.

I really like all of Vigée Le Brun’s female portraits because they’re so charismatic and playful, but this one in particular is really engaging. Also, my tutor and one of my friends once said I looked like her here, which is nice!

3. Eugene Delacroix, Le Vampire, 1825.

sexy

4. David Martin, Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay and her Cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray, c. 1778.

I always smile when this picture crops up beause it’s just so sweet, so it has to be on this list.

5. John Pettie, Two Strings to Her Bow, 1882.

i love this cause you just know she’s fucking both of them.