01878cam a22002534a 4500 050217s2005 ctuaf b 001 0beng 9780300108729 0300108729 SDU ND553 M466 E 2005 May, Gita. 195665 Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun : the odyssey of an artist in an age of revolution / Gita May. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2005. 237 p., : ill. Early years -- First successes -- Marriage -- Marie-Antoinette's portraitist -- Vigée Le Brun salonnière -- 1789 -- Rome -- Naples, Venice, Milan -- Vienna -- The Russian experience -- Homeward bound -- The English interlude -- Return to imperial France -- An active old age. HKBU library YT2025 M09 The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigée 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, Vigée 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. Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842. 195666 Portrait painters France 195667 Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842. 195666 = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 104710 104710 0 0 lcc 0 ND0553 M466 E2005 0 CGB 282551 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-09-22 2 0 ND553 M466 E 2005 1000361161 2025-09-22 00:00:00 C.1 2025-09-22 GBE