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Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

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Francés
Nacimiento/Muerte
1755-1842

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Artwork by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
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Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov (1727–1797)

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Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was a self-taught French painter who became a professional artist in her teens. In 1783 she joined the French Academy. They permitted only four female members at any given time. She was the preferred portraitist of Queen Marie Antoinette.

Her professional association with the royal family resulted in her exile following the French Revolution of 1789. However, this connection allowed for her continued success abroad. While in Russia at the court of Catherine the Great, the artist completed a portrait of Ivan Shuvalov, founder of the Russian Academy of Arts.

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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French: [elizabɛt lwiz viʒe lə bʁœ̃]; née Vigée; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun or simply Madame Le Brun, was a French painter who mostly specialized in portrait painting, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Her artistic style is generally considered part of the aftermath of Rococo with elements of an adopted Neoclassical style. Her subject matter and color palette can be classified as Rococo, but her style is aligned with the emergence of Neoclassicism. Vigée Le Brun created a name for herself in Ancien Régime society by serving as the portrait painter to Marie Antoinette. She enjoyed the patronage of European aristocrats, actors, and writers, and was elected to art academies in ten cities. Some famous contemporary artists, such as Joshua Reynolds, viewed her as one of the greatest portraitists of her time,…