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OstufSchmidt1924
7/7/2008 12:21:12 pm
Vigee Le Brun is an extremely embarrasing oversight to the cultural consciousness art history at large that we perpetuate.We Study David's art from the same period and fawn all over him for his "Great Psychological Power" in his heroic male portraiture.What a laugh! We are so biased towards clear representations of the common male state of mind that we simply gloss over and omit fabulous representations and expressions of the beguiling female way of looking at things.While I deeply appreciate the psychic power with which David invests his characters...it's no more evocative than these portraits here.In fact,one might venture to say that capturing the alluring and multi-dimensional characteristics of her subjects as Le Brun does here is more tricky than the capturing of the one-aspectual heroicism of David's subjects.
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Vigee Le Brun
She was born in Paris on 16 April 1755, Marie Élisabeth-Louise Vigée, the daughter of a portraitist and fan painter, Louis Vigée, from whom she received her first instruction. Her mother was a hairdresser.[1] She was sent to live with relatives in Epernon until the age of 6 when she entered a convent where she remained for five years. Her father died when she was 12 years old. In 1768, her mother married a wealthy jeweler, Jacques-Francois Le Sèvre and the family moved to the rue Saint-Honoré close to the Palais Royal. During this period Elisabeth benefited by the advice of Gabriel François Doyen, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Joseph Vernet, and other masters of the period. The art of Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Elisabeth and her beloved daughter,painted by her. A Innsbruck, un palais abrite le premier portrait officiel de Marie-Antoinette, réalisé par Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, son artiste attitrée et son amie personnelle. On y découvre une femme élégante, ...Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun 1755-1842Above Elisabeth's Brother painted by her... One of the many portraits done of Marie Antoinette by Elizabeth,for her kind patroness and confidant. Above...After fleeing the Revolutionary horrors,she paints perhaps her most luridly charming self-portrait in Firenze She published her memoirs in 1835 and 1837, which provide an interesting view of the training of artists at the end of the period dominated by royal academies. Her portrait of fellow neoclassical painter, Hubert Robert, is in Paris at Musee National du Louvre. ArchivesCategories |