#ancien regime
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.
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Portrait of Marie Gabrielle de Gramont, Comtesse de Caderousse, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1784
