Vigee Le Brun

Elizabeth-Louise Vigee-Le Brun: "An Exceptional Woman of the Eighteenth Century" HUM 2234, E001 & E005 Ms. Schwam February 24, 2000 "Research Paper" Elizabeth-Louise Vigee-Le Brun is noted as a very prominent woman/artist in the World of the Eighteenth Century art. She is known for her work as a portrait painter. Her most famous works are included in the series that she had painted at age twenty-four of Queen Marie-Antoinette. Vigee-Le Brun was a woman of so many talents. …

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