Marie Antoinette, the last Queen of France, still manages to mesmerize the masses. Some 230 years after her grisly demise, her most powerful legacy, in many senses, is her image, with its complex and ...
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 du Louvre, ...
As Old Masters rebound at auction, the 18th-century style's language of pleasure, intimacy and deflection might also be resurfacing culturally and in the market. On March 25, Christie's is proud to ...
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, “Self-Portrait” (1790), oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 31 7/8 inches, Gallerie degli Uffizi, Corridoio Vasariano, Florence (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) ...
Products are independently selected by our editors. We may earn an affiliate commission from links. Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was a pretty tough chick. This gifted portraitist, born in 1755, ...
Maligned by feminists and macho critics, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was a maverick Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Marie Antoinette with a Rose. (Collection of Lynda and Stewart Resnick) In late ...
The courtesan Madame du Barry became the king’s favorite mistress but ended up with her head in a basket Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, widely regarded as the most accomplished female painter of the 18th ...
The court painter to Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun, was the first internationally celebrated woman artist. But only now, more than 170 years after her death, has ...
The court painter to Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun, was the first internationally celebrated woman artist. But only now, more than 170 years after her death, has ...
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