Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, widely regarded as the most accomplished female painter of the 18th century, painted this gorgeous portrait of Madame du Barry in 1782. That was the year in which Madame ...

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Marie Antoinette with a Rose, 1783, oil on canvas, 116.8 x 88.9 cm. Lynda and Stuart Resnick. Portrait painting exhibitions rarely draw in the big crowds, but this ...

The daughter of a pastelist and a hairdresser, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842) painted and befriended Marie Antoinette, escaped the horrors of the French Revolution, and forged a ...

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; ...

Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, Marie Antoinette in a Chemise Dress. Found in the Collection of Schloss Wolfsgarten. ... as well as the infamous Madame du Barry, the longtime mistress of King Louis XV.

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 ...

Madame Le Brun packed up her brushes and her 8-year-old daughter and, leaving her husband behind, hopped a coach to Italy. Four years later, the queen who cried “Let them eat cake!” met the ...

Memoirs of Madame Vigee Lebrun. George Braziller, $17.5 (260pp) ISBN 978-0-8076-1222-4.

The artist’s self-portrait with her daughter raised eyebrows with her open mouth. Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Self-Portrait with her Daughter, Julie (c. 1789). Found in the Collection of Musée ...