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Born in 1755: (1755-1842), French Portrait Painter

Portrait of Corisande Armandine Léonie Sophie de Gramont (1782-1865)

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2020-04-17

Born on this day in 1755, Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun was the favorite portrait painter of Marie Antoinette. Vigée-Lebrun captured the European elite—including this portrait of Madame Du Barry, the one-time mistress of Louis XV. https://t.co/OEJPSGirjv

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2020-04-16

b. 1755, celeb artist Élizabeth Vigée Le Brun, portrait painter to Marie Antoinette. Here’s a short film w/ curator & 2 glorious self-portraits & https://t.co/NHYR2VWi0R

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2020-04-16

Vigée Le Brun died in Paris, aged 86. Her ravishing work is her epitaph & demonstration of her determination to paint no matter what challenges were thrown at her. Madame Baudin (1835), A Lady (1831) & Aglaé Angélique Gabrielle de Gramont (1824)

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2020-03-30

Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (16 April 1755 - 30 March 1842) was a French painter

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2020-03-24

Born in 1732: (1732-1800), daughter of King

Portrait by Élisabeth Louise (1755-1842), 1791

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2020-03-24

Peace bringing back Abundance
Pierre Viel, Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Prints, Engraving
French, 1787

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2020-03-21

Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842) was a French painter.Anna Tolstoy

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2020-03-18

Voilà 4 women artists whose work deserves recognition. They toiled in the shadow of their male contemporaries. Everybody knows Frida Kahlo, have you heard of Helen Frankenthaler, Artemisia Gentileschi, Berthe Morisot & Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun?

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2020-03-09

At 15 Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun was painting the aristocracy, in her 20s she was the favoured painter of Marie Antoinette, and by her 30s she was fleeing the French Revolution. Learn more about this 18th century portrait painter: https://t.co/dWC7ZEdPSe

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2020-03-08

A Portrait of Countess Golovina
🎨 Elizabeth Vigée-Lebrun
about 1797-1800
https://t.co/121NHSPQUK

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2020-02-27

Vigée Le Brun died in Paris, aged 86. Her ravishing work is her epitaph & demonstration of her determination to paint no matter what challenges were thrown at her. Madame Baudin (1835), A Lady (1831) & Aglaé Angélique Gabrielle de Gramont (1824)

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2020-02-22

The pictures in that link look like adverts for cosmetic dentistry. And certainly "not decorous": Vigée Lebrun was castigated for painting her teeth in this self portrait.

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2020-02-14

Madame Rousseau et sa fille, Elisabeth
par Élisabeth VIGÉE-LE BRUN (París, 1755 - 1842) Musée du Louvre, Paris

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2020-02-13