Vigée Le Brun

Author : Gita May
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300130003

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Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun by Gita May Pdf

The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755—1842) exerted her considerable charm to become the friend, and then official portraitist, of Marie Antoinette. Though profitable, this role made Vigée Le Brun a public and controversial figure, and in 1789 it precipitated her exile. In a Europe torn by strife and revolution, she 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, Vigée 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. This gripping biography tells the story of a singularly gifted and high-spirited woman during the revolutionary era and explores the development and significance of her art. The book also recounts the public and private lives of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, connecting her with such personalities of her age as Catherine the Great, Napoleon, and Benjamin Franklin, and setting her experiences in the context of contemporary European politics and culture. A generous selection of illustrations, including sixteen of Vigée Le Brun’s portraits presented in full color, completes this exceptional volume.

Author : Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547025597

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The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun Pdf

This is an autobiography and memoirs of the extraordinary life of Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun (1756-1842), one of the finest painters of eighteenth-century France. She was highly esteemed by painters at home and abroad and became one of the few women admitted to the French Academy at a time when a career as an artist was all but restricted to men. Due to this honor, she entered the higher society and got acquainted with both aristocracy and the greatest artists and writers of the day. Among the people she managed to see in her life, a reader will find Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, Benjamin Franklin, and Lord Byron.

Author : Angelica Goodden
Publisher : Andre Deutsch
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Painters
ISBN : UCSD:31822025549551

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The Sweetness of Life by Angelica Goodden Pdf

Author : Joseph Baillio,Katharine Baetjer,Paul Lang
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588395818

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Vigée Le Brun by Joseph Baillio,Katharine Baetjer,Paul Lang Pdf

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842) was one of the finest eighteenth-century french painters and among the most important women artists of all time. Celebrated for her expressive portraits of French royalty and aristocracy, and especially of her patron Marie Antoinette, Vigée Le Brun exemplified success and resourcefulness in an age when women were rarely allowed either. Because of her close association with the queen Vigée Le Brun was forced to flee France during the French Revolution. For twelve years she traveled throughout Europe, painting noble sitters in the courts of Naples, Russia, Austria, and Prussia. She returned to France in 1802, under the reign of Emperor Napoleon I, where her creativity continued unabated. This handsome volume details Vigée Le Brun's story, portraying a talented artist who nimbly negotiated a shifting political and geographic landscape. Essays by international scholars address the ease with which this self-taught artist worked with monarchs, the nobility, court officials and luminaries of arts and letters, many of whom attended her famous salons. The position of women artists in Europe and at the Salons of the period is also explored, as are the challenges faced by Vigée Le Brun during her exile. The ninety paintings and pastels included in this volume attest to Vigée Le Brun's superb sense of color and expression. They include exquisite depictions of counts and countesses, princes and princesses alongside mothers and children, including the artist herself and her beloved daughter, Julie. A chronology of the life of Vigée Le Brun and a map of her travels accompany the text, elucidating the peregrinations of this remarkable, independent painter.

Author : Mary D. Sheriff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226752828

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The Exceptional Woman by Mary D. Sheriff Pdf

Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun (1755-1842) was an enormously successful painter, a favorite portraitist of Marie-Antoinette, and one of the few women accepted into the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. In her role as an artist, she was simultaneously flattered as a charming woman and vilified as monstrously unfeminine. In the Exceptional Woman, Mary D. Sheriff uses Vigee-Lebrun's career to explore the contradictory position of "woman-artist" in the moral, philosophical, professional, and medical debates about women in eighteenth-century France. Central to Sheriff's analysis is one key question: given the cultural norms and social attitudes that regulated a woman's activities, how could Vigee-Lebrun conceive of herself as an artist, and indeed become a successful one, in old-regime France. Paying particular attention to painted and textual self-portraits, Sheriff shows how Vigee-Lebrun's images and memoirs undermined the assumptions about "woman" and the strictures imposed on women. Engaging ancien-regime philosophy as well as modern feminism, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and art criticism, Sheriff's interpretations of Vigee-Lebrun's paintings challenge us to rethink the work of this controversial woman artist.

Author : Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Artists
ISBN : UOM:39015012195411

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Souvenirs of Madame Vigée Le Brun by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun Pdf

Author : Joseph Baillio,Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015009269161

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Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1755-1842 by Joseph Baillio,Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun Pdf

Author : Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015015455739

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The Memoirs of Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun Pdf

Author : Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781785250729

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Vigee-Lebrun by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun Pdf

Rare femme de son époque à avoir intégré l’Académie royale de peinture, Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842) fut une portraitiste très appréciée de l’aristocratie. Ses tableaux témoignent d’une période clé de l’Histoire : elle fut la peintre attitrée et l’amie de Marie-Antoinette avant la Révolution, et prit la fuite à travers l’Europe avant de revenir en France sous Napoléon, tout en continuant de peindre. Autodidacte, VigéeLebrun sut mettre ses modèles en valeur, maîtrisant les effets de matière à la perfection et usant d’un style délicat et raffiné.

Author : Jennifer Dasal
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780525506409

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ArtCurious by Jennifer Dasal Pdf

A wildly entertaining and surprisingly educational dive into art history as you've never seen it before, from the host of the beloved ArtCurious podcast We're all familiar with the works of Claude Monet, thanks in no small part to the ubiquitous reproductions of his water lilies on umbrellas, handbags, scarves, and dorm-room posters. But did you also know that Monet and his cohort were trailblazing rebels whose works were originally deemed unbelievably ugly and vulgar? And while you probably know the tale of Vincent van Gogh's suicide, you may not be aware that there's pretty compelling evidence that the artist didn't die by his own hand but was accidentally killed--or even murdered. Or how about the fact that one of Andy Warhol's most enduring legacies involves Caroline Kennedy's moldy birthday cake and a collection of toenail clippings? ArtCurious is a colorful look at the world of art history, revealing some of the strangest, funniest, and most fascinating stories behind the world's great artists and masterpieces. Through these and other incredible, weird, and wonderful tales, ArtCurious presents an engaging look at why art history is, and continues to be, a riveting and relevant world to explore.

Author : Haldane MacFall
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752413373

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Vigée Le Brun by Haldane MacFall Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Vigée Le Brun by Haldane MacFall

Author : William Henry Helm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Painters
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031856011

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Vigée-Lebrun, 1755-1842 by William Henry Helm Pdf

Author : Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1079697896

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Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun - Paintings and Drawings by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Pdf

The works of French Rococo Neoclassicist painter Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun [Madame Lebrun] (16 April 1755 - 30 March 1842).

Author : National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.)
Publisher : Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art, French
ISBN : 1857597435

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Royalists to Romantics by National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.) Pdf

Features some seventy-five paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings by thirty-five French women artists from between 1750-1848.

Author : W. H. Helm
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781683256083

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Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun by W. H. Helm Pdf