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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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press,
c2005.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.