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 ...

Self-Portrait with Her Daughter, Julie by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun is a portrait masterpiece blending fashionable elegance and emotional naturalism.

The daughter ... status. Le Brun calibrated her salon submissions for maximum promotional impact. “Peace Bringing Back Abundance” demonstrated her ambition, while her self-portrait promoted ...

The portrait, in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, is one of several that Vigée Le Brun painted of ... Madame du Barry was the daughter of a seamstress and a friar ...

In this chapter, called “The Creativity of Women,” Sterngast looks at the legacy of prominent French portraitist Élisabeth Vigée Le ... Vigée-Lebrun idolizing in her Lubomirski portrait?

It shows up as a sash in a self-portrait; enhancing the gowns of Countess von Bucquoi and Princess Yusupova; fluttering behind the artist’s daughter in Julie Le Brun as Flora; and encircling ...

plus an equal number of self-portraits testifying to Vigée Le Brun’s stature as one of the great beauties of Paris in the years preceding the French Revolution (1789-1799). (The name is pronoun ...

Image caption, The exhibition poster is based on a self-portrait Interviewing ... I had assumed that Vigee Le Brun was born into the nobility. In fact she was the daughter of a minor painter ...