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Self-portrait in a Straw Hat, 1782

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun was a French Badass Female Artist born in 1755. Vigée Le Brun contributed to the Neoclassical movement and died in 1842. Get notified when Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun's biography is complete:

Madame Elisabeth de France

Self-portrait in a Straw Hat

Marie-Antoinette with the Rose

Portrait of Comtesse de Cérès

Portrait of Charles-Alexandre de Calonne

Portrait of Marie Gabrielle de Gramont, Duchesse de Caderousse

Portrait of Madame Molé-Reymond

Portrait of Comtesse de la Châtre

Self-Portrait

Portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante

Portrait of Countess Maria Theresia Bucquoi, née Parr

Portrait of Princess Belozersky

Portrait of Corisande de Gramont

Portrait of Caroline Murat with her daughter, Letizia

Memoirs of Madame Vigee-Lebrun

Angelica Kauffmann

A feminist prodigy charms the European elite

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Creating beauty by the rules

Alexandre Cabanel

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

Virtuoso painter, political chameleon, complete jerk

Jacques-Louis David

Clearing the way for women

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

A global titan of neoclassical sculpture

Art is life, science is death

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