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Tuesday
Apr172012

Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842)

DateTuesday, April 17, 2012 at 6:25PM

Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat, after 1782, oil on canvas, 98 x 70 cm, National Gallery, London (click photo for larger image)One of the most successful of all women artists, Vigée-Lebrun was a French painter particularly noted for her portraits of women. Her father was Louis Vigée, a pastel portraitist and her first teacher. She studied later with a number of well-known painters, among them Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Joseph Vernet.

In 1776 she married a picture dealer, J.-B.-P. Lebrun. Her great opportunity came in 1779 when she was summoned to Versailles to paint a portrait of Queen Marie-Antoinette. The two women became friends, and in subsequent years Vigée-Lebrun painted at least 25 portraits of Marie-Antoinette in a great variety of poses and costumes; a number of these may be seen in the museum at Versailles.

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