They introduce us to the delightful young woman of whom her father himself said “ You will be a painter, my child, if ever there was one,” The self-portraits are exceedingly appealing and revealing.
Taught by her father Louis Vigée, a noted portraitist who worked chiefly in pastels, it was 1776 when Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigée married art dealer JBP Le Brun, adding his surname after her own. Successfully she raised a child on her own, despite the constraints placed on her by her chosen career, becoming a woman for all time, a woman of influence. She used her paintings, pastels and drawings, eight of which will be on display, to assert her own status and position as a single working mother. Queen Marie Antoinette, also known as The Muslin Portrait, oil on canvas, by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1783 in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Its identification with Ancient Greece and Rome had as much to do with the eighteenth century’s perception of early democracy, as it did with antique rules of architecture and design. Petersburg to Edinburgh, from Virginia to Versailles. It grew gradually embracing many disciplines and was seen from St. The Neoclassical movement of the second half of the eighteenth century left a legacy in which designers ever since have found inspiration in the clarity, simplicity and spaciousness of its forms. Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was one of the great portrait painters of her period in history and the exhibition provides an insight into her impact on history and people’s perceptions. At last the first retrospective of many wonderful portrait paintings by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) is on show at Paris at the Grand Palais Galleries Nationales through to January 11, 2016.Īfter that it will travel on to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from February 15 and then at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa from 10th June.Ĭontaining some 160 works, curated by Joseph Baillio and Xavier Salmon, the exhibition has some exceptional loans from private and public collections, including the Chateau of Versailles. Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun, Self Portrait, 1791, Ickworth, Suffolk, (National Trust Photographic Library)
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