Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun : the odyssey of an artist in an age of revolution / / Gita May

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910818084403321
• Autore: May Gita
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2005
• ISBN: 1-281-72240-5; 9786611722401; 0-300-13000-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (266 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): Vigee-LebrunLouise-Elisabeth <1755-1842.>
• Disciplina: 759.4; B
• Soggetti: Portrait painters - France
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-220) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Early years -- First successes -- Marriage -- Marie-Antoinette's portraitist -- Vigee Le Brun salonniere -- 1789 -- Rome -- Naples, Venice, Milan -- Vienna -- The Russian experience -- Homeward bound -- The English interlude -- Return to imperial France -- An active old age.
• Sommario/riassunto: The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun (1755-1842) exerted her considerable charm to become the friend, and then official portraitist, of Marie Antoinette. Though profitable, this role made her a public and controversial figure, and in 1789 it precipitated her exile. In a Europe torn by strife and revolution, this singularly gifted and high-spirited woman nevertheless managed to thrive as an independent, self-supporting artist, doggedly setting up studios in Rome, Naples, Venice, Milan, Vienna, St. Petersburg, and London. Long overlooked or dismissed, Vigee Le Brun's portraits now hang in the Louvre, in a room of their own, as well as in all leading art museums of the world. Illustrations include sixteen of her portraits presented in full color.--From publisher description.