Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun the odyssey of an artist in an age of revolution /

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 her a public and controversial figure, and in 1789 it precipitated her exile. In a Euro...

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Huvudskapare: May, Gita
Institutionell skapare: ebrary, Inc
Övriga skapare: Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2005.
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • Early years
  • First successes
  • Marriage
  • Marie-Antoinette's portraitist
  • Vigée Le Brun salonnière
  • 1789
  • Rome
  • Naples, Venice, Milan
  • Vienna
  • The Russian experience
  • Homeward bound
  • The English interlude
  • Return to imperial France
  • An active old age.