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Princess Maria Josepha Hermengilde Esterházy de Galantha (née Liechtenstein) as Ariadne on Naxos (1793) by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. Liechtenstein Museum.

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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante. 1792. Oil on canvas.

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welcome to TheArtofVigéeleBrun! I’m glad you’re here

As expected, here you’ll find everything related to Élisabeth Vigée le Brun, a French artist of the Georgian period. This masterpost can be used to navigate this blog (by using the tags below) and to find a biography on Vigée le Brun. I hope you enjoy this collection of her art, and that you come to appreciate her craft as much as I do :)

Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat (1782)

Élisabeth Louise Vigée le Brun

born: 16 April 1755 Paris, France

died: 30 March 1842 (aged 86) Paris, France

Madame le Brun was a French portrait artist in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. While much of her paintings were done in her home country of France, she also lived and worked in Italy, Austria, Russia, and Germany as a fleeing Royalist following the French Revolution.

Besides Vigée le Brun, some of my other favorite artists are Botticelli, Leonardo DaVinci, Egon Schiele, Georgia O’Keeffe, Tabuco, Gustav Klimt, Artemisia Gentileschi, Sofonisba Anguissola, Frank Xaver Winterhalter, & Janet Hayden.