Vigée Le Brun

Woman Artist in Revolutionary France

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755–1842) is one of the finest eighteenth-century French painters and among the most important of all women artists. She was remarkable not only for her technical gifts but for her understanding of and sympathy with her sitters. This will be the first retrospective and only the second exhibition devoted to Vigée Le Brun in modern times. The eighty works on view will be paintings and a few pastels from European and American public and private collections. Read more.

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The artist painting a portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette (1790), Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. © Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy / Bridgeman Images

Marie-Antoinette and her children (1787), Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun © Photo Rmn-Grand Palais (Château de Versailles) / Gérard Blot

Hubert Robert (1788), Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun Musée du Louvre, Paris

Isabella Teotochi Marini (May-June 1792), Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo

Princess Catherine Ilinitchna Golenichtcheva-Koutouzova (1797), Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Gabrielle Yolande Claude Martine de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac (1782), Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun © Photo : Rmn-Grand Palais (Château de Versailles) / Gérard Blot

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