When we admire great works of art, we rarely think about who the people depicted on the paintings are. Behind some famous ...

Picking out Vigée Le Brun’s self-portrait alerts visitors to the only, as Riding puts it, “engineered” aspect of The Wonder of Art: the foregrounding of art by, depicting, or commissioned ...

For instance, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun’s Self Portrait in a Straw Hat (1782) is hung in the same octagonal space (Room 15) asthe picture that inspired it, Peter Paul Rubens’s presumed Portrait ...

At the 1787 Salon, Élisabeth Vigée-LeBrun created both that great scandal and a major societal change. Her self-portrait — in ...

A century later, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun caught the happiness of a mother and child in self-portraits with her daughter and was unusual in doing so: images of motherhood had been dominated by the ...

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 ...

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, “Self Portrait in a Straw Hat” (after 1782), oil on canvas, 38 1/2 x 27 7/10 inches (image via Wikimedia Commons) ...

Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun, 'Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante,' ca. 1790-1792Image: NATIONAL MUSEUMS LIVERPOOL/Lady Lever Art Galllery During her exile, Le Brun spent time in Italy, Russia ...

48 x 37.5 cm. (18.9 x 14.8 in.) Presumably bequeathed by her to her cousin, Madame Justin Tripier Le Franc, née Eugénie Le Brun (1797-1872); Thence by inheritance to her son, Charles- Auguste Tripier ...

24.9 x 24.7 cm. (9.8 x 9.7 in.) Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Souvenirs 1755-1842, Bibliothèque des correspondances, mémoires et journaux, text by Geneviève Haroche-Bouzinac, Paris, Honoré Champion, ...