#vigee lebrun

[artschoolglasses]

Portrait of a Woman, Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun, 1803

[vivelareine]

A pastel of Yolande Gabrielle Martine (1749-93), duchesse de Polignac by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun.

[justineportraits]

Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun Madame Grand (Noël Catherine Vorlée) 1783

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, Self-portrait in a Straw Hat, ca. 1782, oil/canvas (National Gallery, London)

[adini-nikolaevna]

“Her features were fine and regular and her face a perfect oval. Her pretty complexion was not animated but of a paleness totally in harmony with her face, which was of an angelic sweetness. Her ash-blond hair floated around her neck and forehead. She was dressed in a white tunic fastened by a girdle knotted casually around a waist as fine and supple as that of a nymph.”

- Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun on the future Empress Elizaveta Alexeievna of Russia.

[matyas-ss]

The Vicomtesse de Vaudreuil, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1785). J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

[queenghostieart]

@valdevia is on tumblr quick post Lady Annetellione

I did this a month or so back for Val’s cursed files challenge, based off of his megalomorpha series and referenced from a EVLB painting. Love her <3

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Portrait of Marie Antoinette with a rose by Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun. Petit Trianon, Versailles, FRANCE

[peoplematchingartworks]

[bea-lele-carmen]

Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun - The Marquise de Pezay, and the Marquise de Rougé with Her Sons Alexis and Adrien - 1787 (detail)

[artschoolglasses]

Portrait of  Mme Du Barry, Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun, 1781

[higherentity]

[vivelareine]

A letter written by Marie-Thérèse Charlotte to Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun on April 15th, 1800, regarding a portrait of Marie Antoinette, which was given to Marie-Thérèse by the comte de Cossé. The duchesse wrote that he gave her...

“...the portrait of my Mother that you had charged him to bring me. You give me the double satisfaction of seeing in a more beautiful work an image very dear to my heart. Judge therefore how grateful I am to you for having used your rare talents to give me this proof of your feelings and be convinced that I am more sensitive to it than I can express to you. You can count equally, Madame, on my feelings for you.”

The letter is part of the Hôtel des Ventes Bordeaux Quinconces November 3rd, 2022 auction.

The portrait is likely this posthumous portrait, which was sent to Marie-Thérèse by the artist. It was auctioned by Christie’s in 2016.

[theartofvigeelebrun]

Le Brun’s portrait of Sophie Geneviève, Le Couteulx du Molay (1788)

[venicepearl]

Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry (19 August 1743 – 8 December 1793) was the last maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV of France. She was executed, by guillotine, during the French Revolution due to accounts of treason—particularly being suspected of assisting émigrés flee from the Revolution.

In order for the king to take Jeanne as a maîtresse-en-titre, she had to be married to someone of high rank so she could be allowed at court; she was hastily married on 1 September 1768, to Comte Guillaume du Barry. The marriage ceremony was accompanied by a false birth certificate, created by Jean du Barry. The certificate made Jeanne younger by three years and dissimulated her “poor” background. Henceforth, she was deemed as an official maîtresse-en-titre to the king.

Her arrival at the French royal court was considered scandalous by some, as she had been a prostitute and a commoner. For these reasons, she was disliked by many, including Marie Antoinette. Marie Antoinette's disfavoring Jeanne and refusing to speak to her was seen as a major issue within the royal court and had to be resolved. On New Year's Day 1772, Marie Antoinette remarked to Jeanne, “There are many people at Versailles today.” This little interaction pleased both Jeanne and the royal court, and the dispute ended, though the latter still disapproved of Jeanne thereafter.

During the Reign of Terror, a subpart of the French Revolution, Jeanne was imprisoned due to accounts of treason, the claims being made by her page Zamor. Soon after her imprisonment, she was executed—by guillotine—on 8 December 1793. Her body was buried in the Madeleine cemetery. The gems she had smuggled out of France during the Revolution were found due to her confession, and were sold at in auction in 1795.

[adini-nikolaevna]

“Their complexions were so fine and delicate that one could have believed they lived in ambrosia.”

- Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun on Grand Duchesses Alexandra and Elena, granddaughters of Catherine the Great.