Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun “Woman Artist in Revolutionary France”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Exhibition Location: Special Exhibition Gallery, first floor, Gallery 199
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) is one of the finest 18th-century French painters and among the most important of all women artists. An autodidact with exceptional skills as a portraitist, she achieved success in France and abroad during one of the most eventful, turbulent periods in European history. Vigée Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France is the first retrospective and only the second exhibition devoted to this artist in modern times. The 80 works on view at the Metropolitan Museum will be paintings and a few pastels from European and American public and private collections.
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from February 15, 2016 to May 15, 2016