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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

May, Gita.

Contributor:

Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842.

Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth.

Portrait painters--France--Biography.

Portrait painters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigee 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 Europe torn by strife and revolution, this singularly gifted and high-spirited woman nevertheless managed to thrive as an independent, self-supporting artist, doggedly setting up studios in Rome, Naples, Venice, Milan, Vienna, St. Petersburg, and London. Long overlooked or dismissed, Vigee Le Brun's portraits now hang in the Louvre, in a room of their own, as well as in all leading art museums of the world. Illustrations include sixteen of her portraits presented in full color.--From publisher description.

Contents:

Early years

First successes

Marriage

Marie-Antoinette's portraitist

Vigee Le Brun salonniere

1789

Rome

Naples, Venice, Milan

Vienna

The Russian experience

Homeward bound

The English interlude

Return to imperial France

An active old age.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-220) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-281-72240-5

9786611722401

0-300-13000-7

OCLC:

923590782