TY  - BOOK
AU  - May,Gita
AU  - Vigée-Lebrun,Louise-Elisabeth
TI  - Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun: the odyssey of an artist in an age of revolution 
SN  - 9780300108729
AV  - ND553 M466 E 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New Haven [Conn.]
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth,
KW  - Portrait painters
KW  - France
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -