Thursday, August 13, 2015

Hi People! How are you? Every day we learn something new, today let me teach you something new or at list something else about this female artist named Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun.
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was born in Paris on 1755, she was the daughter of a successful artist who support her will to learn painting.  At a very young age she met the success and using her talent, name and her unique and characteristic style she become one of the most requested portrait painters of her time. Her work were prolific and had a new way of seen the portrait, at that time so serious, she paint her costumers in refreshing expressions, even in sometimes laughing or smiling, which was consider until her a rough expression until she made it fashionable.
Between her most famous costumers where Marie Antoinette, who she paint a total of 30 times.
She trump in a man’s world, and in a world that even for rich woman were difficult. She reach economic independence and introduce feelings and sensibility to portrait.

She died at the age of 87 on 1842, after publish her memoirs, Souvenirs.

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