Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

AprElisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was born on April 16, 1755, and died on March 30, 1842.¹

AprElisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was born in Paris on April 16, 1755, and died in Paris on March 30, 1842, at the age of 86.²

She became a member of the Académie de Saint-Luc in 1774 and was accepted into the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1783.³

She married Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun in 1776, but later condemned his habits as a spendthrift and womanizer.¹

In 1776, she received her first royal commission to paint the portrait of the Comte de Provence (the future King Louis XVIII).¹