num_pages: 368
description: In 1778, at the age of 23, the artist Elisabeth Vigée-le Brun painted her first portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette. Eleven years later, fearful for her life, she fled France on the eve of the French Revolution. Disguised as a peasant with her six-year-old daughter in tow, she embarked on a working voyage round the courts of Europe, painting the rich, clever, noble and beautiful of her day.
language: English
title: Memoirs of Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun
titlecomplete: Memoirs of Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun
genres: Art History, Biography, France, Historical, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, 19th Century, Art, History
ratings_count: 181
publisher: Camden Press