MARIE ANTOINETTE 1893 Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun VICTORIAN PRINT

Original 1893 4 1/2 inch x 6 1/8 inch print titled MARIE ANTOINETTE

Painted by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755 - 1842). Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was one of the foremost portraitists in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first three decades of the nineteenth. She belonged to the long succession of European courtier-artists that began with Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) and closed with John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). It is not an overstatement to claim that she was self taught, although she did receive a few lessons from minor painters such as Gabriel Briard (1725-1777) and Pierre Davesne (active 1764-1796). When she was nineteen years old, she became a member of the Académie de Saint-Luc, where her father, the pastelist Louis Vigée (1715-1767), had taught.

Published in the Art Journal 1893

Page size 12 1/2 inch x 9 1/4 inch

The print is in very good condition. Printed text surrounding the image and on the reverse with another image.