This book presents 40 selected masterpieces from the 130 paintings exhibited at the Grand Palais, Paris, from September 2015, then at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
Genevieve Haroche-Bouzinac is literature professor at the university of Orleans and expert of the 18th century. She has already published Louis Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, histoire d'un regard (Flammarion, 2011), a biography of the painter.
[Vigee Le Brun] excelled in more intimate formats, the three-quarter and especially bust-length portraits, where her renderings of expression, lightly powdered ringlets and fabric are beyond reproach. -- Roberta Smith The New York Times, February 11, 2016 There is also a long tradition of great artists... Vigee Le Brun was an artist at that lofty level, at a moment women weren't supposed to be artists at all. -- Jason Farago The Guardian, February 12, 2016
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