Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun

art. She is known for her work as a portrait painter. Her most famous works are included

in the series that she had painted at age twenty-four of Queen Marie-Antoinette. Elisabeth

was a woman of so many talents. Before she died at eighty-seven years old, she was an

accomplished artist, exceptional musician, and a loving mother. She was an unusually

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The Queen and Elisabeth developed a close relationship which

later became too dangerous. e was charming and self-confident with an ability to

present her sitters’ personas with an advantage. Love and romance were considered to be better subjects for

art than historical or religious subjects. The styles characteristics were free, graceful

movements; a playful use of line; and delicate colors. Here is a quote characterizing her art as, “a conspicuous anachronism,

typifying the final attempt by Ancient Regime society to shut its eyes to unwelcomed

realities, and to take refuge in a world of make-believe and fancy dress”. Marie-Antoinette is painted with a

fair complexion and is portrayed as an extremely feminine woman. After Marie-Antoinette and Louis XIV were arrested,

Elisabeth began twelve years of exile. She was very reputable because she

managed to keep her head and professional reputation in a time of the French Revolution. This painting still hangs at Versailles. Nine years later she began work on her most

famous portrait series of Marie-Antoinette, which included “Marie-Antoinette and her

children at Verssailles-1788”. Although, her talent gained her admissions to

several academies. By the age fifteen she

could have supported herself and her family. Elisabeth shows Marie

as a good motherly figure. Elisabeth was a painter of the

Rococo period which placed emphasis on portraying the carefree life of the nobility rather

than on heroes or martyrs.

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