Memoirs Of Madame Vigee Lebrun
by Louise-Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun
from Kessinger Publishing, LLC
This vivid autobiography recounts the extraordinary life of Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun (1756-1842), one of the finest painters of eighteenth-century France. Esteemed by painters at home and abroad, Vigée Lebrun was one of the few women admitted to the French Academy at a time when a career as an artist was all but restricted to men. This honor catapulted her into contact with both high society and the greatest artists and writers of the day. Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, Benjamin Franklin, and Lord Byron were only a few of her vast and prestigious clientele. While describing her life as an artist, Vigée Lebrun also provides an exciting account of the dramatic events of her day, particularly the French Revolution and the Terror, from which she barely escaped. 8 black-and-white illustrations.
The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art
by Mary D. Sheriff
from University Of Chicago Press
In The Exceptional Woman, Mary D. Sheriff uses Vigée-Lebrun's career to explore the contradictory position of "woman-artist" in the moral, philosophical, professional, and medical debates about women in eighteenth-century France. Paying particular attention to painted and textual self-portraits, Sheriff shows how Vigée-Lebrun's images and memoirs undermined the assumptions about "woman" and the strictures imposed on women.
Engaging ancien-régime philosophy, as well as modern feminism, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and art criticism, Sheriff's interpretations of Vigée-Lebrun's paintings challenge us to rethink the work and the world of this controversial woman artist.
The memoirs of Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun
Explorations De L'Imaginaire De LA Representation Au Dix-Huitieme Siecle Francais-Chardin, Vigee-Lebrun, Diderot, Marivaux (Studies in French Literature)
MADAME VIGEE-LEBRUN: PEINTRE DES GRANDES DAMES DU XVIII SIECLE
The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art
ELISABETH VIGEE-LEBRUN. PINTORA DE REINAS
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