Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

French painter

Date of Birth: 16-Apr-1755

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 30-Mar-1842

Profession: writer, painter, salonnière

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Madame Lebrun or 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.



Alternative names	Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun; Vigée-Le Brun; Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun
Description	French portrait painter
Date of birth/death	16 April 1755	30 March 1842
Location of birth/death	Paris	Paris
Authority control	: Q213163 VIAF: 59113411 ISNI: 0000 0001 1651 5656 ULAN: 500010070 LCCN: n82110153 NLA: 36535545 WorldCat