“Pretty as an Angel, but Most Stupid”
Nelie Jacquemart-Andre must have liked this portrait a lot; she hung it in her boudoir, now a room in the Musee Jacquemart-Andre, close to her luxurious bathtub (Nelie loved soaking in the tub). The...
View ArticleElisabeth Vigee-Lebrun: Painter and Survivor
“Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat,” Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun, 1782, Public Domain Elisabeth Vigee LeBrun, in the self-portrait above, could be mistaken for a conventional 18th century woman, getting ready...
View ArticleMarie Antoinette: Women and Window Treatments
The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna has one of the most famous images of Marie Antoinette, painted by Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun in 1779. It was one of her most important paintings, and the artist...
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