Happy birthday,  Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun! The prominent French portrait pa

Happy birthday,  Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun! The prominent French portrait painter was born in Paris on April 16, 1755.  Vigée Le Brun created a name for herself in Ancien Régime society by serving as the portrait painter to Marie Antoinette, seen above with her children. We have Madame Vigée-Lebrun, peintre des grandes dames du XVIIIe siécle (1919) in our collection. Ask a librarian to see anything in our special collections.