Souvenirs of Madame Vigée Le Brun
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- Author: Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
- Date Published: June 2016
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The most accomplished female painter of her age, Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755–1842) is best remembered for her many portraits of Queen Marie Antoinette of France. Her two-volume autobiography was published in France in 1835–7, and this English version (of which the translator is unknown) in 1879. It begins with a series of ten letters to a Russian friend, Princess Kourakin, describing her family and early life, her artistic training, and her rise to the position of portraitist to the queen. The letters end with the Revolution and Vigée-Lebrun's flight abroad: the 'souvenirs' which follow describe her years of exile and her eventual return to France. Volume 1 ends with her staying in Vienna, and Volume 2 covers an extended period in Russia, and a visit to England, before she finally settled again in Paris in about 1810. Throughout her life, she supported herself and her family by her painting.
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- Date Published: June 2016
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108080743
- length: 656 pages
- dimensions: 140 x 215 x 35 mm
- weight: 0.87kg
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Part I:
1. My childhood
2. Death of my father
3. My walks
4. My marriage
5. The queen
6. Voyage to Flanders
7. The Greek supper
8. Le Kain
9. Chantilly
10. The duc de Nivernais
11. Romainville
12. 1789
Part II:
1. Turin
2. Rome
3. Portraits done in Rome
4. Piazza of St Peter's
5. I leave for Naples
6. The Baron Talleyrand
7. I return to Rome
8. I leave Rome
9. Venice
10. Turin
11. The comtesse de Thoun and her soirées
12. Portraits I took in Vienna
13. Huitzing. Volume 2:
1. I leave Vienna
2. Peterhoff
3. Comte Cobentzel
4. I paint the two young grand-duchesses
5. The cold at St Petersburg
6. The lake of Pergola
7. Catherine
8. Paul I
9. Portrait of the empress Marie
10. My reception by the St Petersburg Academy
11. A bad road
12. Death of Paul I
13. Narva
14. I leave Berlin
15. I arrive in Paris
16. London
17. The Prince of Wales
18. The Chinnery family
19. I leave England
20. Louveciennes
21. The queen's portrait
22. Cruel losses I sustained in my family
Postscriptum by the editor.
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