page_title: Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Madame Vigée-Le Brun et sa fille, Jeanne-Lucie, dite Julie (1780 - 1819).
context_page_description: Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, also known as Madame Le Brun, was a prominent French portrait painter of the late 18th century.
  Her artistic style is generally considered part of the aftermath of Rococo with elements of an adopted Neoclassical style. Her subject matter and color palette can be classified as Rococo, but her style is aligned with the emergence of Neoclassicism. Vigée Le Brun created a name for herself in Ancien Régime society by serving as the portrait painter to Marie Antoinette. She enjoyed the patronage of European aristocrats, actors, and writers, and was elected to art academies in ten cities.
  Vigée Le Brun created some 660 portraits and 200 landscapes. In addition to many works in private collections, her paintings are owned by major museums, such as the Louvre, Hermitage Museum, National Gallery in London, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and many other collections in continental Europe and the United States.
caption: Self-Portrait with Her Daughter Julie, 1786
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