Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun : the odyssey of an artist in an age of revolution / Gita May.

The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) exerted her considerable charm to become the friend, and then official portraitist, of Marie Antoinette. Though profitable, this role made her a public and controversial figure, and in 1789 it precipitated her exile. In a Euro...

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Main Author: May, Gita
Other Authors: Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2005.
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505 0 |a Early years -- First successes -- Marriage -- Marie-Antoinette's portraitist -- Vigée Le Brun salonnière -- 1789 -- Rome -- Naples, Venice, Milan -- Vienna -- The Russian experience -- Homeward bound -- The English interlude -- Return to imperial France -- An active old age. 
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