Souvenirs of Madame Vigée Le Brun 2 Volume Set
Souvenirs of Madame Vigée Le Brun 2 Volume Set
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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.
Product details
June 2016Multiple copy pack
9781108080743
656 pages
140 × 215 × 35 mm
0.87kg
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.
