Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun

An exceptional women, Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun was already a renowned portraitist for the nobility at the age of twenty. From1777, she became the official painter of the queen Marie Antoinette. In 1789, she chose exile and travelled to Italy, Austria andRussia. Invited in major courts of Europe, she acquired an international reputation. Back in France in 1800, then staying inEngland and Switzerland, Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun did not cease to paint until her death in 1845. Her work counts approximately 900 paintings, including more than 660 portraits. This book presents 40 selected masterpieces from the 130 paintings exhibited at the Grand Palais, Paris, from September 2015, then at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.