#vigee lebrun

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Portrait of a Woman, Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun, 1803

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A pastel of Yolande Gabrielle Martine (1749-93), duchesse de Polignac by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun.

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Julie as Flora, Roman Goddess of Flowers

Artist: Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755��1842)

Genre: Portrait

Date: 1799

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida

Painted in 1799, Julie LeBrun as Flora is a sophisticated allusion to Roman antiquity. It depicts the artist's daughter, Julie LeBrun (1780–1819), in the guise of the goddess of flowers. This is the last known composition that she painted of her daughter.

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Self-portrait in a Straw Hat by Elisabeth Louise Vigee Lebrun (1782, Öl auf Leinwand)

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Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun Madame Grand (Noël Catherine Vorlée) 1783

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Marie Antoinette in Court Dress

Artist: Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755–1842)

Date: 1778

Medium: OIl on canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

In 1777, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria wrote to her daughter Marie Antoinette (1755–1793) asking for a portrait. Vigée Le Brun received the commission, her first from the queen. She remembered that the queen "walked better than any other woman in France, holding her head very high with a majesty that singled her out in the midst of the entire court."

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Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, Self-portrait in a Straw Hat, ca. 1782, oil/canvas (National Gallery, London)

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“Her features were fine and regular and her face a perfect oval. Her pretty complexion was not animated but of a paleness totally in harmony with her face, which was of an angelic sweetness. Her ash-blond hair floated around her neck and forehead. She was dressed in a white tunic fastened by a girdle knotted casually around a waist as fine and supple as that of a nymph.”

- Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun on the future Empress Elizaveta Alexeievna of Russia.

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The Vicomtesse de Vaudreuil, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1785). J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

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Portrait of  Mme Du Barry, Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun, 1781

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welcome to TheArtofVigéeleBrun! I’m glad you’re here

As expected, here you’ll find everything related to Élisabeth Vigée le Brun, a French artist of the Georgian period. This masterpost can be used to navigate this blog (by using the tags below) and to find a biography on Vigée le Brun. I hope you enjoy this collection of her art, and that you come to appreciate her craft as much as I do :)

Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat (1782)

Élisabeth Louise Vigée le Brun

born: 16 April 1755 Paris, France

died: 30 March 1842 (aged 86) Paris, France

Madame le Brun was a French portrait artist in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. While much of her paintings were done in her home country of France, she also lived and worked in Italy, Austria, Russia, and Germany as a fleeing Royalist following the French Revolution.

Besides Vigée le Brun, some of my other favorite artists are Botticelli, Leonardo DaVinci, Egon Schiele, Georgia O’Keeffe, Tabuco, Gustav Klimt, Artemisia Gentileschi, Sofonisba Anguissola, Frank Xaver Winterhalter, & Janet Hayden.

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New art history YouTube podcast is up! Let me know if you like this sort of thing.

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Portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante

Artist: Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755–1842)

Genre: Portrait

Date: c. 1790

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England

Information

This painting of Emma, also known as Lady Hamilton, captures her mid-performance, playing a dancing Bacchante. Emma became famous and notorious in British artistic and society circles for these performances. With the help of veils and shawls she would pose in imitation of the figures on the Greek and Etruscan vases collected by her husband, nine of which are also in the Lady Lever's collection.

Vigée-Lebrun seems to have painted Emma on four occasions during the artist's stay in Naples between 1790 and 1792. The Lady Lever's portrait is thought to have been painted in 1792, shortly after Emma's marriage in 1791 to her much older and besotted admirer, Sir William Hamilton, Britain's diplomatic envoy to the Kingdom of Naples.

The Lady Lever's portrait remained with the artist all her life and was inherited by her niece. Whilst it was in the artist's studio she made various changes to it which were discovered during conservation work in 2015. One of the veils that Emma used in her performances originally floated down from her raised right hand, but this was painted out. The artist also adjusted the sleeve of Emma's ancient-Grecian-style tunic so as to show more of her slim upper arm and shoulder, making her even more alluring.

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Late but my acrylic finals for trimester 3

Basically I repainted works by Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, Pietro Rotari, Francois Boucher and Lucius Rossi except I added blood and it’s about feminism or something sorry i didnt get that far