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VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth
French painter (full name: Marie-Louise-Élisabeth Vigee-Lebrun). Vigee LeBrun's most famous client was Marie Antoinette, France's much maligned queen. When the two met in 1778, Vigee LeBrun's art-dealer husband had gambled away his wife's earnings. Still, she was dauntless and set out to establish her own salon where she would court royal clients. In a November 1982 article for Art in America, Brooks Adams noted that in her memoirs, Vigee LeBrun said that her much sought-after salon was, "a place where art and society mixed, where noblemen and ministers were content to sit on the floor, to avoid the stiff, formal court entertainments at Versailles." In time, her portraits and memoirs alike painted a portrait of Vigee LeBrun as a woman born to contend with anyone. Unfortunate Circumstances Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee LeBrun was born in 1755 in Paris. Her father was Louis Vigee, a little-known portrait artist who worked in pastels. From the time she was small, he taught his daughter the skills of the trade. She proved to be somewhat of a prodigy. Her parents placed Vigee LeBrun in the convent of La Trinite, directly behind the Bastille. Her earliest memories were of drawing so frantically on the walls of her dormitory that the sisters regularly punished her. When her father died, Vigee LeBrun was only 12. He had been her biggest supporter. For an article in Antiques, magazine in November 1967, Ilse Bischoff quoted Vigee LeBrun's father after he saw a drawing she had done as a small child. It was the head of a bearded man with the light of a lamp falling on his face. She took care to observe light and shade, and showed skill beyond her years. Her father had exclaimed, "You will be a painter if I ever saw one." By the time she was 15, Vigee LeBrun had established a business as a painter that provided major financial support for her family. Her mother was a hairdresser from Luxembourg, who remarried not long after her first husband's death. Her stepfather soon began to squander her earnings. When she was only 21, she married an art dealer named Pierre LeBrun. It was clearly a marriage more of convenience, than of love. They had one daughter, Julie, born in 1780. Vigee LeBrun's marriage helped her gain access to a world normally restricted to men. Although she was denied access to a male apprentice system, and was unable to participate in classes at the major art academies around the city, she gained admission to the lesser salon of the Academie de Saint Luc. However, the Academie Royale was closed to her without proper connections. In those days, being shown in lesser salons kept a painter away from the financial benefits to be gained from wealthier clients who frequented the prestigious Academie Royale. When Vigee LeBrun was finally admitted to the Royale in 1783, her critics were not kind. She was accused of using her husband and the palace, most particularly her friendship with Queen Marie Antoinette. Another unfortunate rumor was that she had a long-standing sexual affair with the finance minister, Calonne. Her accusers contended that he aided her in squandering much of the Royal Treasury. That was never proven. Still, it was clear that she capitalized on her associations with the queen and the rest of the royal family. The aristocracy longed to be seen as simple, especially as unrest grew among the people outside of the palace confines. One portrait of Marie Antoinette was considered so scandalously informal, that it was withdrawn from the salon in the midst of her debut at the Academie Royale. Vigee LeBrun's arch-rival was a woman painter named Madame Labille Guiard. They were admitted to the Academie Royale on the same day. For the rest of the decade, before the French Revolution erupted in 1789, the two women maintained their rivalry. At the time of the academy's biennial exhibitions, the bitterness they felt toward each other had reached the height of its intensity. Vigee LeBrun painted one of her most acclaimed works in 1784. It was the portrait of Marie-Gabrielle de Gramont, Duchess of Caderousse. That was the same year she suffered a miscarriage, and painted only five portraits. Her usual output far exceeded that. The portrait was shown at the Salon of 1785 to much acclaim and became one of the artist's most celebrated works. In her memoirs, written fifty years later, Vigee LeBrun recalled the painting. "As I detested the female style of dress then in fashion, I bent all my efforts upon rendering it a little more picturesque, and was delighted when, after getting the confidence of my models, I was able to drape them according to my fancy. Shawls were not yet worn, but I made an arrangement with broad scarfs lightly intertwined around the body and on the arms, which was an attempt to imitate the beautiful drapings of Raphael and Domenichino I could not endure powder persuaded the Duchess to put none on for her sittings." Thrived in Exile Vigee LeBrun was not immune to the anxious rumbling that became the French Revolution. What had begun on that fateful night of July 14, 1789, erupted further when mobs stormed the palace at Versailles on the following October 6. Vigee LeBrun had been in disfavor for her association with Marie Antoinette for some time and was considered to be a royal sympathizer.

 

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VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth The Daughter's Portrait   RT oil painting

Painting ID::  9639

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VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth
The Daughter's Portrait RT
Oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale, Parma
   
   
     

 

 

VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth Portrait of Madame Grand ER oil painting

Painting ID::  9640

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VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth
Portrait of Madame Grand ER
1783 Oil on canvas, 92 x 72 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
   
   
     

 

 

VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth Madame Perregaux et oil painting

Painting ID::  9641

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VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth
Madame Perregaux et
1789 Oil on panel, 100 x 79 cm Wallace Collection, London
   
   
     

 

 

VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat r oil painting

Painting ID::  9642

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VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth
Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat r
after 1782 Oil on canvas, 98 x 70 cm National Gallery, London
   
   
     

 

 

VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth Woman's Head iy oil painting

Painting ID::  9643

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VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth
Woman's Head iy
1780 Charcoal and coloured chalk on blue paper, 479 x 405 mm École des Beaux-Arts, Paris
   
   
     

 

 

VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth Portrait of a Young Woman et oil painting

Painting ID::  9644

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VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth
Portrait of a Young Woman et
c. 1797 Oil on canvas, 82,2, x 70,5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
   
   
     

 

 

VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth Countess A S Stroganova and Her Son (san 05) oil painting

Painting ID::  20975

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VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth
Countess A S Stroganova and Her Son (san 05)
1793 (Inv No 7587)Oil on canvas 35 1/2 x 29''(90.5 x 73 cm)(Ex coll Stroganov Palace Museum)
   
   
     

 

 

VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth Count G I Chernyshev Holding a Mask (mk05) oil painting

Painting ID::  20976

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VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth
Count G I Chernyshev Holding a Mask (mk05)
1793 (INv No 7459)Oil on canvas 22 x 17''(56 x 44 cm)(Ex coll Chernysheva-Kruglikova St Peter sburg)
   
   
     

 

 

VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth Self Portrait (san 05) oil painting

Painting ID::  20977

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VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth
Self Portrait (san 05)
1800 (Inv No 7586)Oil on canvas 31 x 27''(75 86)Oil on canvas 31 x 27''(78.5 x 68 cm)(Ex coll Vigee-Lebrun St Petersburg)
   
   
     

 

 

VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth Portrait of der Madame de Stael als Corinne oil painting

Painting ID::  33786

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VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth
Portrait of der Madame de Stael als Corinne
mk86 c.1807/08 Oil on canvas 140x118cm Geneva Musee d'Art et d'Histoire
   
   
     

 

 

VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth Madame Grassini in the Role of Zaire oil painting

Painting ID::  39924

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VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth
Madame Grassini in the Role of Zaire
mk155 c.1805 c.1805 Oil on canvas 127x95cm
   
   
     

 

 

VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth Mme de Stael as Corinne oil painting

Painting ID::  40641

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VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth
Mme de Stael as Corinne
mk156 1808 Oil on canvas 140x118cm
   
   
     

 

 

VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth Countess Golovin oil painting

Painting ID::  53871

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VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth
Countess Golovin
mk234 ca 1797-1800 83x67cm
   
   
     

 

 

VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth Calonne by lebrun oil painting

Painting ID::  67217

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VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth
Calonne by lebrun
Year 1784(1784) Technique Oil on canvas Dimensions 155.5 ?? 130.3 cm (61.22 ?? 51.30 in)
   
   
     

 

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VIGEE-LEBRUN, Elisabeth
French painter (full name: Marie-Louise-Élisabeth Vigee-Lebrun). Vigee LeBrun's most famous client was Marie Antoinette, France's much maligned queen. When the two met in 1778, Vigee LeBrun's art-dealer husband had gambled away his wife's earnings. Still, she was dauntless and set out to establish her own salon where she would court royal clients. In a November 1982 article for Art in America, Brooks Adams noted that in her memoirs, Vigee LeBrun said that her much sought-after salon was, "a place where art and society mixed, where noblemen and ministers were content to sit on the floor, to avoid the stiff, formal court entertainments at Versailles." In time, her portraits and memoirs alike painted a portrait of Vigee LeBrun as a woman born to contend with anyone. Unfortunate Circumstances Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee LeBrun was born in 1755 in Paris. Her father was Louis Vigee, a little-known portrait artist who worked in pastels. From the time she was small, he taught his daughter the skills of the trade. She proved to be somewhat of a prodigy. Her parents placed Vigee LeBrun in the convent of La Trinite, directly behind the Bastille. Her earliest memories were of drawing so frantically on the walls of her dormitory that the sisters regularly punished her. When her father died, Vigee LeBrun was only 12. He had been her biggest supporter. For an article in Antiques, magazine in November 1967, Ilse Bischoff quoted Vigee LeBrun's father after he saw a drawing she had done as a small child. It was the head of a bearded man with the light of a lamp falling on his face. She took care to observe light and shade, and showed skill beyond her years. Her father had exclaimed, "You will be a painter if I ever saw one." By the time she was 15, Vigee LeBrun had established a business as a painter that provided major financial support for her family. Her mother was a hairdresser from Luxembourg, who remarried not long after her first husband's death. Her stepfather soon began to squander her earnings. When she was only 21, she married an art dealer named Pierre LeBrun. It was clearly a marriage more of convenience, than of love. They had one daughter, Julie, born in 1780. Vigee LeBrun's marriage helped her gain access to a world normally restricted to men. Although she was denied access to a male apprentice system, and was unable to participate in classes at the major art academies around the city, she gained admission to the lesser salon of the Academie de Saint Luc. However, the Academie Royale was closed to her without proper connections. In those days, being shown in lesser salons kept a painter away from the financial benefits to be gained from wealthier clients who frequented the prestigious Academie Royale. When Vigee LeBrun was finally admitted to the Royale in 1783, her critics were not kind. She was accused of using her husband and the palace, most particularly her friendship with Queen Marie Antoinette. Another unfortunate rumor was that she had a long-standing sexual affair with the finance minister, Calonne. Her accusers contended that he aided her in squandering much of the Royal Treasury. That was never proven. Still, it was clear that she capitalized on her associations with the queen and the rest of the royal family. The aristocracy longed to be seen as simple, especially as unrest grew among the people outside of the palace confines. One portrait of Marie Antoinette was considered so scandalously informal, that it was withdrawn from the salon in the midst of her debut at the Academie Royale. Vigee LeBrun's arch-rival was a woman painter named Madame Labille Guiard. They were admitted to the Academie Royale on the same day. For the rest of the decade, before the French Revolution erupted in 1789, the two women maintained their rivalry. At the time of the academy's biennial exhibitions, the bitterness they felt toward each other had reached the height of its intensity. Vigee LeBrun painted one of her most acclaimed works in 1784. It was the portrait of Marie-Gabrielle de Gramont, Duchess of Caderousse. That was the same year she suffered a miscarriage, and painted only five portraits. Her usual output far exceeded that. The portrait was shown at the Salon of 1785 to much acclaim and became one of the artist's most celebrated works. In her memoirs, written fifty years later, Vigee LeBrun recalled the painting. "As I detested the female style of dress then in fashion, I bent all my efforts upon rendering it a little more picturesque, and was delighted when, after getting the confidence of my models, I was able to drape them according to my fancy. Shawls were not yet worn, but I made an arrangement with broad scarfs lightly intertwined around the body and on the arms, which was an attempt to imitate the beautiful drapings of Raphael and Domenichino I could not endure powder persuaded the Duchess to put none on for her sittings." Thrived in Exile Vigee LeBrun was not immune to the anxious rumbling that became the French Revolution. What had begun on that fateful night of July 14, 1789, erupted further when mobs stormed the palace at Versailles on the following October 6. Vigee LeBrun had been in disfavor for her association with Marie Antoinette for some time and was considered to be a royal sympathizer.