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Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Citizens and Kings Portraits in the Age of Revolution, 1760-1830

3 February - 20 April 2007

Main Galleries

The Royal Academy of Arts, London

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755–1842) is one of the finest 18th-century French painters and among the most important of all women artists. An autodidact with exceptional skills as a portraitist, she achieved success in France and Europe during one of the most eventful, turbulent periods in European history.