Discover court painter, painter, pastelist Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun

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Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun

female / French

Name variations

This field records and makes accessible name variations, as found in sources. Alternate spellings, nicknames, maiden names - with or without the married name - are included in this category.

: Vigée-Le Brun, Marie Louise Elisabeth
Le Brun, Marie Louise Elisabeth
Lebrun, Marie Louise Elisabeth
Vigée-Lebrun, Marie Elizabeth Louise

Qualifications: court painter, painter, pastelist

Nationality/school: French

Born: Paris 1755-04-16

Deceased: Paris 1842-03-30

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: Daughter of Louis Vigée (1715-1767), married in 1776 with art dealer / painter Jean Baptiste Pierre Le Brun (1748-1813); divorce during her exile in 1794.

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17 hits in RKDimages as artist
23 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

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Biographical information

Active in

Parijs
Rome 1774
Versailles 1779 - 1781
worked at the court in Versailles
Nederland 1782
Gerson/Meijer 1942/1983, p. 97
Amsterdam (stad) 1782
Haroche-Bouzinac 2008, p. 179
Vlaanderen (regio) 1782
Haroche-Bouzinac 2008
Brussel 1782
Haroche-Bouzinac 2008, p. 177-178
Antwerpen (stad) 1782
Haroche-Bouzinac 2008, p. 179
Rotterdam (stad)
Haroche-Bouzinac 2008, p. 690
Den Haag (stad)
Haroche-Bouzinac 2008, p. 691
Italië 1789 - 1792
vluchtte in 1789 uit Parijs; bleef uiteindelijk 12 jaar in ballingschap
Wenen (stad) 1792
Rusland 1795
Berlijn 1800 - 1802
Londen (Engeland) 1802 - 1805
Nederland 1805
Parijs 1805 - 1809
Louveciennes (Yvelines) 1809
vanaf 1809

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active in

died in

Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Briard, Gabriel
Davesne, P.
Vigée, Louis
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Benoist, Marie-Guilhelmine
Chaudet-Gabiou, Jeanne-Elisabeth
Lemoine, Marie Victoire
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Cumano, Costantino
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Charpentier, Constance Marie
Borovikovski, Vladimir Lukich

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: mythology, allegory, history (genre), portrait

Member of

Accademia di San Luca (Rome)
was adopted on 25 October 1774 as a member of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 23 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 34 (1940), p. 346-347
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 97
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 10, p. 500-502
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 316 (en 171)
Haroche-Bouzinac 2008 , passim
Du Pasquier 2010 , passim
Fend/Hyde/Lafont 2012 , passim
Münch et al. 2017 , p. 111-132

M. Gallet, 'La maison de madame Vigée-Lebrun rue du Gros-Chenet', Gazette des Beaux-Arts 102 (1960) 56, p. 275-284
H. Douwes Dekker, 'Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun. Een herwaardering', Tableau 7 (1985), no. 5, p. 53-56
H. Douwes Dekker, ' ''Raadgevingen bij het schilderen van een portret'' van Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun nog steeds actueel', Tableau 9 (1987), no. 4, p. 83-85
H. Douwes Dekker, 'De zelfportretten van Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun', Tableau 10 (1988), no. 1, p. 64-65
H. Kraan, 'Collectie Vigée-Lebrun', RKD bulletin 1997, no. 1, p. 21
J. Hedley, 'Vigée Le Brun's newly conserved portrait of Mme Perregaux in the Wallace Collection, Burlington Magazine 146 (April 2004), p. 224-233
G. Zick, 'Julie heiratete den Falschen', Die Weltkunst, 76 (2006), no. 13, p. 92-97
Chr. De Aldecoa, 'Elisabeth Louise Vigée le Brun (1755-1842) de l'Académie Royale de Paris, de Rouen, de Saint-Luc, de Rome et d'Arcadie, de Parme et de Boulogne. De Saint-Pétersbourg, de Berlin, de Genève et Avignon. Autopotrait, ou une vie pour la peinture', Les Cahiers d’Histoire de l'Art (2014), no. 2, p. 53-60
M.D. Sheriff, 'Pour l'histoire des femmes artistes: historiographie, politique et théorie', Perspective 2017 no. 1, p. 91-112, passim

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lisabeth_Vig%C3%A9e-Le_Brun (mei 2011)

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This field specifies the location of the various RKD documentation materials. Most of the locations refer to our art-historical image documentation. In addition, you will find references to press documentation (clippings and short articles) here.

Archive location: collectie Marie Louise Elizabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Project: Gerson Digital : France (Nachwirkung)

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Creation date: 1992-01-12; Last modified date: 2021-07-29

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