Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, also known as Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun or simply Madame Le Brun, was a French painter who mostly specialized in portrait painting, in the late 18th and early 19th
Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat, 1782
Self-portrait at age sixteen, 1771, pastel.
Self-portrait with her Daughter Julie, 1786, Louvre Museum
Marie Antoinette with a Rose, 1783. Palace of Versailles.
Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun was a French painter, art collector and art dealer. Simon Denis was his pupil.
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
…Provence (the future King Louis XVIII). After her stepfather retired from his business, he moved his family to the Hôtel de Lubert in Paris where she met Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun, a painter, art dealer and relation of the painter Charles Le Brun, on the Rue de Cléry where they lodged. Élisabeth visited M. Le Brun's apartments…
Self-Portrait, c. 1795, private collection
Peter Paul Rubens, Suzanne Fourment, c. 1625; bought by Lebrun for the Louvre in 1793