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Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

1755 - 1842

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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French: [elizabɛt lwiz viʒe lə bʁœ̃]; née Vigée; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun or simply as Madame Le Brun, was a French painter who mostly specialized in portrait painting, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Her artistic style is generally considered part of the aftermath of Rococo with elements of an adopted Neoclassical style. Her subject matter and color palette can be classified as Rococo, but her style is aligned with the emergence of Neoclassicism. Vigée Le Brun created a name for herself in Ancien Régime society by serving as the portrait painter to Marie Antoinette. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun is the 92nd most popular painter (down from 82nd in 2019), the 271st most popular biography from France (down from 242nd in 2019) and the 26th most popular French Painter.

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun is most famous for her portraits of Marie Antoinette.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun ranks 92 out of 2,023. Before her are Max Ernst, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, François Boucher, Duccio, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and Cimabue. After her are Oskar Kokoschka, Honoré Daumier, Paolo Uccello, Vittore Carpaccio, Paul Signac, and Sofonisba Anguissola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun ranks 3. Before her are Marie Antoinette, and Louis XVIII of France. After her are Paul Barras, Axel von Fersen the Younger, Alexander Hamilton, Samuel Hahnemann, Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, James Parkinson, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Georges Couthon, and Anthony of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1842, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun ranks 2. Before her is Stendhal. After her are Luigi Cherubini, Constanze Mozart, Bernardo O'Higgins, Clemens Brentano, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Robert Smith, Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey, Shah Shujah Durrani, and Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun ranks 271 out of 6,770. Before her are François Boucher (1703), Charles the Simple (879), Serge Gainsbourg (1928), Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732), Philip I of France (1052), and Francis de Sales (1567). After her are Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Jean Marais (1913), Louis, Dauphin of France (1729), Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1611), Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619), and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun ranks 26. Before her are Gustave Doré (1832), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), Georges Seurat (1859), Berthe Morisot (1841), François Boucher (1703), and Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732). After her are Honoré Daumier (1808), Paul Signac (1863), Claude Lorrain (1600), William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825), Georges de La Tour (1593), and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699).

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