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Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

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Contents

Lenders to the exhibition -- Foreword / Marc Mayer and Thomas P. Campbell -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors to the catalogue -- The artistic and social odyssey of Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun / Joseph Baillio -- The women of the French Royal Academy / Katharine Baetjer -- Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and the European spirit / Paul Lang -- Catalogue -- Map of the travels of Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun -- Chronology of the life of Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun -- Checklist -- Notes to the essays -- Selected bibliography -- Index -- Illustrations credits.

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Publisher

  • Publication

    Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada = Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, [2016]

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  • Period

    1700 - 1899

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Classification

  • ISBN

    • 0888849362
    • 9780888849366

Annotations / title notes

  • Notes

    • The French catalog, "Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun", under the direction of Joseph Baillio and Xavier Salmon was published in 2015 for the Paris venue, includes some different essays, and different entries for exhibted works. The American catalog, "Vigée Le Brun", by Joseph Baillio, Paul Lang and Katharine Baetjer and contributions by Ekaterina Deryabina, Gwenola Firmin, Stéphane Guégan, Anabelle Kienle Poňka, Xavier Salmon, Anna Sulimova was published in 2016.
    • Translations from French and Russian texts.
    • Published in conjunction with the exhibition, "Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842): the Portraitist to Maríe Antoinette", presented at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, June 10-September 11, 2016; and, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 9-May 15, 2016 (entitled "Vigée le Brun: woman artist in revolutionary France"). A related exhibition (entitled "Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun") was held at Grand Palais, Galeries nationales, Paris, September 23, 2015-January 11, 2016. The North American venues exhibited different works by the artist.

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