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Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun

by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

What was it like to be a female artist during the French Revolution? In her memoirs, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun recounts her extraordinary life as a female artist during the French Revolution. Born in Paris in 1755, Vigée Le Brun rose to become one of the most successful portrait painters of her time. She painted portraits of many of the most famous and influential people of her day, including Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI, and many members of the French aristocracy.

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English

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French

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1835

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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was a French painter who mostly specialized in portrait painting, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. She was born in Paris on April 16, 1755, and died in Paris o...

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