About this title: The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun (1755 - 1842) exerted her considerable charm to become the friend, and then official portraitist, of Marie Antoinette. Though profitable, this role made Vigee Le Brun a public and controversial figure, and in 1789 it precipitated her exile. In a Europe torn by strife and revolution, she nevertheless managed to thrive as an independent, self-supporting artist, doggedly setting up studios in Rome, Naples, Venice, Milan, Vienna, St. Petersburg and London. Long overlooked or dismissed, Vigee Le Brun's portraits now hang in the Louvre, ...
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Binding: Hard
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780300108729ISBN:0300108729
Description: Good + in Good + jacket. Ex Library Story of the "foremost woman artist of her age (1755-1842). Illustrations. Light library use. Usual library markings. Pp237. read more
Description: Fine in Fine dustwrapper. 'The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution'. Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) was the foremost woman artist of her age. 'A gripping bography'. Illustrated. 220x145, 237pages. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 2005-10-10
ISBN-13:9780300108729ISBN:0300108729
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780300108729ISBN:0300108729
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