TY - BOOK AU - May,Gita AU - Vigée-Lebrun,Louise-Elisabeth ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun: the odyssey of an artist in an age of revolution AV - ND553.V5325 M39 2005eb U1 - 759.4B 22 PY - 2005/// CY - New Haven [Conn.] PB - Yale University Press KW - Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, KW - Portrait painters KW - France KW - Biography KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-220) and index; Early years -- First successes -- Marriage -- Marie-Antoinette's portraitist -- Vigée Le Brun salonnière -- 1789 -- Rome -- Naples, Venice, Milan -- Vienna -- The Russian experience -- Homeward bound -- The English interlude -- Return to imperial France -- An active old age; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries N2 - The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) exerted her considerable charm to become the friend, and then official portraitist, of Marie Antoinette. Though profitable, this role made her a public and controversial figure, and in 1789 it precipitated her exile. In a Europe torn by strife and revolution, this singularly gifted and high-spirited woman nevertheless managed to thrive as an independent, self-supporting artist, doggedly setting up studios in Rome, Naples, Venice, Milan, Vienna, St. Petersburg, and London. Long overlooked or dismissed, Vigée Le Brun's portraits now hang in the Louvre, in a room of their own, as well as in all leading art museums of the world. Illustrations include sixteen of her portraits presented in full color.--From publisher description UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10170834 ER -