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Portraiture · France

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

1755–1842 · Portraitist of the ancien régime and its exile

PortraitureRococoMotherhoodSelf-portraits

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Marie Antoinette's favourite painter, Vigée Le Brun fled the Revolution and rebuilt her career across Italy, Russia and England, producing over 600 portraits with an unusually warm, unpowdered naturalism.

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