![]() ![]() ![]() The 80 works on view include paintings and a few pastels from European and American public and private collections. ![]() ![]() This is the first retrospective and only the second exhibition devoted to Vigée Le Brun in modern times. She was remarkable not only for her technical gifts but for her understanding of and sympathy with her sitters. While in exile, she exhibited at the Paris Salons. 'Vigée Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France,' February 15May 15, 2016. 'Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun,' September 23, 2015January 11, 2016. Petersburg, and Berlin before returning to France, taking sittings from, among others, members of the royal families of Naples, Russia, and Prussia. Grand Palais, Galeries nationales, Gras Savoye. Independently, she worked in Florence, Naples, Vienna, St. Obliged to flee France in 1789 because of her association with the queen, she traveled to Italy, where in 1790 she was elected to membership in the Accademia di San Luca, Rome. Nevertheless, through the intervention of Marie Antoinette, she was admitted at the age of 28 in 1783, becoming one of only four women members. In 1776, she married the leading art dealer in Paris his profession at first kept her from being accepted into the prestigious Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. An autodidact with exceptional skills as a portraitist, she achieved success in France and Europe during one of the most eventful, turbulent periods in European history. Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755–1842) is one of the finest 18th-century French painters and among the most important of all women artists. ![]()
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