Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun was one of the most successful painters of her time. Over the course of her life, spanning from 1755-1842, she painted over 900 works. She enjoyed painting self portraits, completing almost 40 throughout her career, in the style of artists she admired such as Peter Paul Rubens (Montfort). However, the majority of her paintings were beautiful, colorful, idealized likenesses of the aristocrats of her time, the most well known of these being the Queen of France Marie Antoinette
The painting named Portrait of Mrs. Chinnery is an artwork by Elisabeth-Louise Vigee LeBrun produced in the year 1803. It is oil on canvas rectangular painting measuring 36 by 28 inches (91.5 by 71 cent meters). Its subject is Mrs. Chinnery, wife to William. Details on her life are scarce although her maiden name is reported. She was a widely known pianist and a popular hostess in one of the buildings that many of the British rich and noble people liked to frequent. She had three children: George
Danny Lin Professor Brent English 2850 Spring 2016 Vigée Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France I learned that the European Enlightenment was an intellectual development period when numerous new ideas about life and people were being invented. The evolution of the American Thought throughout the Enlightenment and the Era of Romanticism was a continuous process that began way before the American Revolution. Personally, I see the enlightenment as being both a movement, as well as a state
claimed that, “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” Artists, such as Louise-Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun and Mary Cassatt, captured not only the way things physically appeared on the outside, but also the emotions that were transpiring on the inside. A part no always visible to the viewer. While both artists, Le Brun and Cassatt, worked within the perimeters of their artistic cultures --the 18th century in which female artists were excluded and
The slip dress, also known as a chemise, was worn for centuries as the main undergarment for women, it was often the first thing put on underneath any corsets and petticoats, however today it can be worn as a simple dress and is no longer undergarments in the way it was hundreds of years ago. There have been changes in construction, regarding length and length of sleeves, fabrics utilized, and ultimately function of the garment. The slip dress transitioned from undergarment to loungewear, and eventually