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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
French portrait painter (1755–1842)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 16 April 1755, 1755
- Died
- 30 March 1842, 1842, 30 April 1842
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Place of death
- Paris
- Sex or gender
- female
- Family name
- Vigée Le Brun, Vigée, Vigée-LeBrun, Le Brun
- Father
- Louis Vigée
- Mother
- Jeanne Maissin
- Child
- Julie Le Brun
- Sibling
- Étienne Vigée
- Movement
- Rococo, Neoclassicism
- Field of work
- painting
- Occupation
- painter, salonnière, writer, artist
- Position held
- court painter
- Citizenship
- France
- Religion
- Catholicism
- artist files at
- Frick Art Research Library, Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Cleveland Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art Library
- depicted by
- Self Portrait in a Straw Hat
- described by source
- Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, 1905, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Great Women Masters of Art, Invisible Women, A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography, Paintings of the nineteenth century: contribution to the history of art, Women in the fine arts, from the seventh century B.C. to the twentieth century A.D., Concise Dictionary of Women Artists, The Art of The Countries and Peoples of The World. Tome 5
- has works in the collection
- Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museo del Prado, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, National Gallery of Art, Nationalmuseum, National Gallery of Canada, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK), Palace of Versailles, Rijksmuseum, Royal Castle in Warsaw
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- list of works
- list of paintings by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun
- name in native language
- Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
- number of children
- 1
- place of burial
- Louveciennes Cemetery
- relative
- Eugénie Tripier-Le Franc
- residence
- Louveciennes, Papal States, Vienna, Saint Petersburg, Paris, Switzerland
- student
- Marie-Guillemine Benoist
- student of
- Louis Vigée, Gabriel Briard
- topic has template
- Template:Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
- topic's main category
- Category:Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
- work location
- Vienna, Antwerp, Brussels, Paris, Versailles, Berlin, Rome, Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam, Russia, London
- writing language
- French
Connected on Wikidata
Creator of
- Marie Antoinette and Her Children
- Marie Antoinette with a Rose
- Self-Portrait with Her Daughter, Julie
- Self Portrait in a Straw Hat
- Portrait of Princess Maria Christina
- Peace bringing back Prosperity
- Self-portrait of Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
- Madame Grand (Noël Catherine Verlée, 1761–1835)
- Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848)
- Portrait of countess Yekaterina Skavronskaya
- Self-portrait with Her Daughter, Julie
- Countess Ekaterina Vassilievna Skavronskaia
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