Marie-Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun - Buy or sell works
16 April 1755, Paris (France) - 30 March 1842, Paris (France)
Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, a highly ambitious artist and rival of Jacques-Louis David, portrayed Marie Antoinette, among other prominent sitters. Following the imprisonment of the royal couple (Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette), she chose twelve years in exile, achieving fame and accumulating a fortune as a painter at princely courts throughout Europe, including Russia.
She was born in Paris on 16 April 1755 to a painter. It was her father who recognised her talent and taught her.
Her portraits of Queen Marie Antoinette perfectly reflect the style of the Rococo.
However, today her self-portraits can certainly be considered more fascinating and captivating, particularly those showing her with her daughter Julie.
Some 660 portraits, including 37 self-portraits, and 200 landscape paintings by the hand of Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun have survived.