"Only in painting have I found happiness," Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun confided at the end of her long, prolific career. Though Vigée Le Brun's high society portraits earned her great fame during her lifetime, her sentimental style fell out of fashion and she largely dropped off the radar. Her long overdue retrospective, "Vigée Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France" opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (February 15 to May 15, 2016). Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, S...
"Only in painting have I found happiness," Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun confided at the end of her long, prolific career. Though Vigée Le Brun's high society portraits earned her great fame during her lifetime, her sentimental style fell out of fashion and she largely dropped off the radar. Her long overdue retrospective, "Vigée Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France" opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (February 15 to May 15, 2016). Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, S...
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