Marie Antoinette’s Favorite Painter 🇫🇷 - Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun || Mikono Art

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755 -1842) was a highly successful French portrait painter, particularly renowned for her depictions of women. Her father, Louis Vigée, an artist, introduced her to painting, and despite being mainly self-taught, she became a member of the Académie de St-Luc in 1774 and later the French Academy in 1783. Her breakthrough came when she was summoned to Versailles to paint a portrait of Queen Marie-Antoinette, leading to a close friendship and over 30 portraits of the queen. During the French Revolution, she fled France and spent 12 years abroad, painting portraits across Europe. Élisabeth’s technical skill, charm, and sensitivity made her one of Europe’s foremost portraitists.

The two other mentioned female artists in the video who became members of the French Academy:
Rosalba Carriera
   • The Pastel Queen 🌸🖍️🇮🇹 - Rosalba Carr...  

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard,
   • Art and Falsely Accused Affairs in Pa...  

#womenartists #mikonoart #ÉlisabethLouiseVigéeLeBrun

...........
We would really love to be able to allocate more time to representing and promoting female artists on Mikono Art. You can easily and safely donate via PayPal: https://paypal.me/MikonoArt

You can also subscribe for updates:

/ @mikonoartartmadebywomen    / @mikonoartartmadebywomen  

Greatly appreciated!
...............................................

We are no art experts! We are just genuinely interested in female artists and painters around the world. Do you have a favourite female painter you want us to cover? Let us know in the comments below, and we’ll consider making YouTube video!

This video is under Fair Use.
Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.
........................................................

Sources of information & inspiration

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun paintings:

Madame Vigée-Le Brun et sa fille, 1786
Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Self-portrait in a Straw Hat, 1782
Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Self-portrait, 1800
Portrait of Countess Varvara Golovina 1800
Portrait of Madame Grand, 1783
Marie Antoinette in Court Dress, 1778
Marie-Antoinette with a Rose, 1783
Marie Antoinette and her Children, 1787. Palace of Versailles.
Portrait of Baronne de Crussol Florensac, 1785
Hubert Robert, 1788



Pietro Antonio Martini, Exposition au Salon du Louvre,1787


https://feministartmaps.wordpress.com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89l...
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun: from Rococo to Revolution | Art UK

Music by Donovan https://pixabay.com/users/z8phyr-2821...