Home
Artists

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

Self-portrait in a Straw Hat, 1782

Painted for Marie Antoinette and never made a dime

The selector used to find the pages shown above is:
template=artwork|writing|artist|movement|book|medium|subject|location|book, limit=200, artists=12219, template=artwork, sort=sort=name, sort=year_completed

We're all young and hot — let's make out.

Meet Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Virtuoso painter, political chameleon, complete jerk.

Meet Jacques-Louis David

The artists of Neoclassicism

Angelica Kauffmann

A feminist prodigy charms the European elite

1741-1807

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

A natural academic creates beauty by the rules

1825-1905

Alexandre Cabanel

Favorite of the salon, a classical painter with an erotic edge

1823-1889

Jacques-Louis David

Virtuoso painter, political chameleon, complete jerk.

1748-1825

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

Painted for Marie Antoinette and never made a dime

1755-1842

Mary Edmonia Lewis

New York woman of color takes over the world of Italian sculpture

1844-1907

Joseph Ducreux

Renaissance painter wins the internet

1735-1802

Anne-Louis Girodet

A phenom works himself to death

1767-1824

Antonio Canova

A global titan of neoclassical sculpture

1757-1822