Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Marie Antoinette with a Rose, 1783, oil on canvas, 116.8 x 88.9 cm. Lynda and Stuart Resnick. Portrait painting exhibitions rarely draw in the big crowds, but this ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1489): In so-called Old Master art, every female nude that was made by a woman also worked as a self-portrait – at least in the eyes of the male buyers and viewers of pictures. I came ...

Julian Barnes has said that “it doesn’t really matter whether an artist has a dull or an interesting life, except for promotional purposes.” Well, lucky for the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa – ...

In her new book, Twelve Paintings, writer Tal Sterngast explores Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, which is known for an exceptional collection of European paintings. She lands on twelve paintings from the ...

I misread the title of this new account of the life and art of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) as “Darling” and thus, momentarily, feared it would perpetuate the caricature of the French ...

On June 10, a new exhibit opens at the National Gallery of Canada. It features about 90 works by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. Best known for her portraits of Marie Antoinette, Vigée Le Brun fled France ...

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Maligned by feminists and macho critics, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was a maverick Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Marie Antoinette with a Rose. (Collection of Lynda and Stewart Resnick) In late ...

Louise-Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun is mainly known for her portraits of Marie-Antoinette and major European personalities of the 18th and 19th century. But she is and foremost a woman who led an ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When a blockbuster calls, truth in advertising is the first victim. The Met subtitles its dazzling Vigée Le Brun show ...