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Author photo. Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat by Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, after 1782.

Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat by Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, after 1782.

Louise-Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun (1755–1842)

Author of Memoirs of Madame Vigee Lebrun

Includes the names: Mme Vigee Lebrun, Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun, Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun, Louise-Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun, Elisabeth Louise Vigee-leBrun, Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le-Brun, Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun

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Date of birth
1755-04-16
Date of death
1842-03-30
Burial location
Cimetière de Louveciennes
Gender
female
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France
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Paris, France
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Paris, France
Louveciennes, France
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painter
memoirist
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Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture
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Marie-Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842) was the most famous and gifted female painter of the 18th century. She is best known for her portraits, including lovely self portraits and paintings of Queen Marie Antoinette and her family. She fled the French Revolution but had no trouble finding patrons for her work in Europe, England, and Russia. She returned to France in 1805.
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