Le Brun and his wife sign an agreement to buy the Hotel de Lubert. In this large townhouse Vigee Le Brun's salon will eventually become one of the most fashionable in pre-revolutionary Paris. Vigee Le Brun exhibits regularly at the Salon de la Correspondance. Between May and June, she accompanies her husband on a tour of Flanders and Holland. 1783 Thanks to the direct intervention of the Queen, on May 31 the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture is compelled to accord Vigee Le Brun full membership.
Critical reaction is mixed.
Her second and last pregnancy results in a miscarriage. The majority of the reviews are enthusiastic. 1786 Calumnious attacks against Mme Le Brun, manifest as early as 1783, November and takes up residence at intensify. For Jean Baptiste Pierre Le Brun, the architect Jean Arnaud Raymond begins construction, in the rue du Gros Chenet, on property adjoining that of the Hotel de Lubert, of a large and opulent townhouse. Once again, her entries are highly praised.