Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Arts
- Subcategories: Artists, Artisans, Painting, Painters, Drawing
- Curriculum: Women’s History, 19th Century European History, 18th Century European History, French History
Article abstract: Vigée-Lebrun was one of the most celebrated artists of her time and is ranked with the best portraitists of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. By concentrating on the personalities of her sitters, she broke with the tradition of the empty ceremonial portrait.
Early Life
Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, born in Paris on April 16, 1755, was the daughter of Louis Vigée, a pastel portraitist and teacher at the Academy of St. Luke. From ages six to eleven, she attended a convent school, where, as she later recorded in her...
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