Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
Also known as Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun, Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Elisabeth Louis Vigee Le Brun, Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, Marie Louise Elizabeth Vigee-LeBrun, Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, Louise Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun
French portrait painter (1755–1842)
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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was a highly successful French portrait painter who lived from 1755 to 1842. She matters because she achieved exceptional prominence as a female artist during a time when few women could practice professional painting at such a level.
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- 1755-04-16
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- 1842-03-30
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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun ( French: [elizabɛt lwiz viʒe lə bʁœ̃]; née Vigée; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun or simply Madame Le Brun, was a French painter who mostly specialized in portrait painting, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Her artistic style is generally considered part of the aftermath of Rococo with elements of an adopted Neoclassical style. Her subject matter and color palette can be classified as Rococo, but her style is aligned with the emergence of Neoclassicism. Vigée Le Brun created a name for herself in Ancien Régime society by serving as the portrait painter to Marie Antoinette. She enjoyed the patronage of European aristocrats, actors, and writers, and was elected to art academies in ten cities. Some famous contemporary artists, such as Joshua Reynolds, viewed her as one of the greatest portraitists of her time, comparing her with the old Dutch masters.
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