Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun

View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.
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Royalists to Romantics: Spotlight on Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun

Posted: March 22, 2012
Category: Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun
Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun was one of the most celebrated painters of pre-Revolutionary Paris and is today the best-known female artist of her generation
A portrait of a light-skinned woman with powdered brown hair tucked under a white wrap with a golden border. She is wearing a blue jacket with a red sash tied around her waist.