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Souvenirs

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Ayant recueilli les suffrages de ses contemporains au point de devenir l'une des portraitistes les plus influentes de son temps, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) se créa une position unique et, s'étant tôt soustraite à l'influence des représentations académiques réglementées, participa à la remise en cause du genre du portrait de cour.Surprise par les troubles révolutionnaires, elle fit partie de la première vague d'émigration et entreprit un voyage d'exil qui dura près de treize années. Turin, Bologne, Florence, Rome, Naples, Dresde, Berlin... offrirent à son inspiration des étapes variées. Elle prit ses quartiers à Vienne, puis à Saint-Pétersbourg avant de revenir en France sous le Consulat.Parce qu'elle fit partie aussi bien de la familiarité de la noblesse de cour que de l'élite cultivée des salons, ses Souvenirs éclairent le brillant de son parcours tout autant que les moeurs d'une société en constante transformation.

656 pages, Paperback

Published September 17, 2020

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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun - also known as Madame Lebrun or Madame Le Brun - was a prominent French portrait painter of the late eighteenth century.

Her artistic style is generally considered part of the aftermath of Rococo with elements of an adopted Neoclassical style. Her subject matter and color palette can be classified as Rococo, but her style is aligned with the emergence of Neoclassicism. Vigée Le Brun created a name for herself in Ancien Régime society by serving as the portrait painter to Marie Antoinette. She enjoyed the patronage of European aristocrats, actors, and writers, and was elected to art academies in ten cities.

Vigée Le Brun created some 660 portraits and 200 landscapes. In addition to many works in private collections, her paintings are owned by major museums, such as the Louvre, Hermitage Museum, National Gallery in London, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and many other collections in continental Europe and the United States.

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