Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

Painted for Marie Antoinette and never made a dime

• Country of birth:France
• movements:Neoclassicism
• subjects:Badass Female Artists

Self-portrait in a Straw Hat

1782

Madame Elisabeth de France

1782

Marie-Antoinette with the Rose

1783

Portrait of Marie Gabrielle de Gramont, Duchesse de Caderousse

1784

Portrait of Comtesse de Cérès

1784

Portrait of Charles-Alexandre de Calonne

1784

Portrait of Madame Molé-Reymond

1786

Portrait of Comtesse de la Châtre

1789

Portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante

1790

Portrait of Countess Maria Theresia Bucquoi, née Parr

1793

Portrait of Princess Belozersky

1798

Portrait of Corisande de Gramont

1800

Portrait of Caroline Murat with her daughter, Letizia

1807

Memoirs of Madame Vigee-Lebrun

1835

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