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Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun

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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.