What is Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun?
[[File:Self-portrait in a Straw Hat by Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun.jpg|thumb|''Self Portrait in a Straw Hat'', 1782]] '''Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun''' (Marie Élisabeth Louise; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842) was a [[painter]]. Her style is considered [[Rococo]] with an interest in [[Neoclassicism]]. Sometimes, her name is spelled ''Vigée-Lebrun''. She painted more than 30 [[portrait]]s of [[Marie Antoinette]] over a six year period. She was accepted as a member of the [[Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture]] in 1783. She left France after the [[arrest]] of the [[royal family]] during the [[French Revolution]]. She lived and worked in [[Italy]], [[Austria]], and [[Russia]]. Her work met great critical [[acclaim]] in [[Rome]]. She was [[elect]]ed to the Roman Accademia di San Luca. In Russia, she painted many [[aristocrat]]s including [[Catherine the Great]]'s family. She was made a member of the Academy of Fine Arts of Saint Petersburg. Vigée Le Brun returned to France during the reign of Emperor [[Napoleon I]]. Her relationship with the new [[regime]] was not completely harmonious. After all, she was a royalist and the former portraitist of Marie Antoinette. She visited [[England]] and painted [[British]] notables including [[Lord Byron]]. In 1807 she traveled to [[Switzerland]] where she was made an honorary member of the Société pour l'Avancement des Beaux-Arts of Geneva. She published her [[memoir]]s in 1835 and 1837. She lived in [[Paris]], and died there on 30 [[March]] 1842. Vigée Le Brun's legacy includes 660 portraits and 200 [[landscape]]s. == Gallery == <gallery> File:Duchess de Polignac.jpg|''Duchess de Polignac'', 1782 File:Vigée-Lebrun Marie Antoinette 1783.jpg|''Marie Antoinette'', 1783 File:Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun - Hubert Robert (1788).jpg|''Hubert Robert'', 1788 File:Self-portrait with Her Daughter by Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun.jpg|''Self portrait with daughter'', 1789 </gallery> == Related pages == * [[List of French painters]] == Other websites == {{commons|Elisa