More 600-portraits became a young French family of artists in one of the most important portrait painters of his time and the whole history of art. Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun immortalized key members of European royalty and nobility. French courts, English and Russian, among others, surrendered to the talent of a great artist who knew how to put on canvas the faces of the most prominent figures of his time.
Surrounded by artists
Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun was born in 1755 in Paris. His father, Louis Vigee, a leading portrait painter and art teacher, not only taught but also encouraged her daughter to follow in his footsteps in the art world. In addition to parental influence, Élisabeth was fortunate to have the teachings of other masters of his time as Jean-Baptiste Greuze.
The teachings of all of them were soon bear fruit. A young Elisabeth professionally painted pictures. He was not yet 20 when she was admitted to the French Academy.
His artistic circle was completed with her marriage. In 1776 the young painter she married Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun, who was also a painter and art dealer.
Versailles Road
The voices of praise for his talent in its work for the nobility of Paris soon reached Versailles. Queen Marie Antoinette was invited to the palace and asked him to portray. Be the first in a long line of portraits of almost all members of the royal family.
Europe Road
The outbreak of the French Revolution and the disappearance of his protected royal family forced the artists to flee their homeland. From that time and over a long period of time Élisabeth travels through Europe. The Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, England, Austria or Russia surrendered to the perfect mastery of the art of the portrait of the French painter. Elisabeth portrayed characters as Lord Byron Featured com Catherine the Great.
Back to New France, the France of Napoleon's empire, also managed to get into the emperor's court and portray members of his family.
The Lady of the academies
Throughout his prolific career Élisabeth was admitted to all who knew art academies his talent. In addition to the French Academy, many accepted it as a member: the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg or the Societe pour l'Avancement des Beaux-Arts in Geneva were few.
self-portraits and other genres
addition to portraying all the nobility and European royalty, Elisabeth had time to make beautiful portraits, sometimes alone, sometimes accompanied by her daughter Julie. Tables in transmitting a great tenderness and sweetness.
Vigee-Lebrun also found inspiration to paint other genres such as landscape, reaching more than 200 paint.
At last, rest
These words accompany Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun in his last home in Louveciennes, where she was buried. Elisabeth was a tireless artist who left his brush in 1842. A brush that became the most famous French painter of his time.
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