Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, French artist, the daughter and student of her father, the artist Louis Vigée, was born on 16th April, 1755 in Paris. In 1776, she married the known art-dealer Jeanne Baptiste Pierre Lebrun. She made an early and brilliant career: in 1779 she officially became a court painter of the Queen Marie-Antoinette, in 1783 she was admitted to the French Academy of Arts. “Intelligent, diplomatic, resourceful, and independent, she remains a role model to women who paint, having won wide recognition for her skills and gained admission to academies long closed to her sex.”
c.1770. Oil on canvas. 91.5 x 72.4, oval. Art Museum, Bucharest, Romania.
1783. Oil on canvas. 98.5 x 71 cm. The National Trust Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, UK. Read Note.
1787. Oil on canvas. 123.5 x 156 cm. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
After 1782. Oil on canvas, 98 x 70 cm. National Gallery, London, UK.
1788. Oil on canvas. 105 x 84 cm. Louvre, Paris, France. Read Note.
1789. Oil on wood. 107 x 83 cm. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
1789. Oil on wood. 105.5 x 83 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
1790. Oil on canvas. 100 x 81 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
1793. Oil on canvas. 90.5 x 73 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1793. Oil on canvas. 56 x 44 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1793. Oil on canvas. 92 x 66 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
c.1800. Oil on canvas. 84 x 67 cm. Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, UK. Read Note.
1800. Oil on canvas. 78.5 x 68 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
. Oil on canvas. 101.5 x 86.5cm. Kiev Museum of Western Art, Kiev, Ukraine. Read Note.
. Oil on canvas. Chateau de Versailles, Versailles, France. Read Note.
. Oil on canvas. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, France.
. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
. Oil on canvas. Chateau de Versailles, Versailles, France. Read Note.
The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art by Mary D. Sheriff. University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Memoirs of Madame Vigee Lebrun. George Braziller, 1989. Bibliography:
Famous Russians in the 18th and 19th centuries. Lenizdat. St. Peterburg. 1996. (in Russian)