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Louis Vigée (2 February 1715 – 9 May 1767) was a French portraitist, fan painter, artist in pastels and a member of the Académie de Saint-Luc. Louis Vigée, Portrait of a young widowed woman. In 1750, he married Jeanne Vigeé (1728–1800).
Louis Vigée, né le 2 février 1715 à Paris, est un peintre pastelliste français. Il est le père de la portraitiste Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun et du dramaturge et écrivain Étienne Vigée.
Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (Paris, 16 de abril de 1755 — Paris, 30 de março de 1842), também conhecida como Madame Lebrun, foi uma pintora francesa, reconhecida como a pintora mais famosa do século XVIII.
- French
- Paris, France
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was one of the great portrait artists of her day, easily the equal of Quentin de La Tour or Jean Baptiste Greuze. Born into relatively modest circumstances, she firmly established herself in society’s upper crust.
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun French. 1783. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 633. Madame Grand was born to a French colonial family near Pondicherry, India.
Her father, Louis Vigée, was a pastelist and member of the artists’ guild, the Académie de Saint-Luc, while her mother, Jeanne Maissin, was a hairdresser. Élisabeth Louise spent her early childhood in the country and then attended a residential convent school.
Along with Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii (1784), Vigée Le Brun's official state portrait of Marie Antoinette with her Children is among the most important paintings of the pre-revolutionary era in France.
