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OIL . PORTRAIT OF VIGEE LE BRUN AND HER #2224115

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OIL . PORTRAIT OF VIGEE LE BRUN AND HER #2224115
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DESCRIPTION: PORTRAIT OF VIGEE LE BRUN AND HER DAUGHTER. DATED 1894. This painting is an exceptional reinterpretation of the homonymous painting by Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun. Inspired by Angelika Kaufmann?s composition, this image of the maternal tenderness is linked with the sentimentalism present in Greuze?s paintings and the idyllic evocations of the childhood that was dear to the contemporary of Rousseau. Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun was an exceptional woman and female painter, particularly of portraits, her style combining Rococo grace and delicacy with Neo-Classical ideals of simplicity and purity. Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun was born in Paris in 1755 to Louis Vigée, a minor portraitist, and Jeanne Maissin, a hairdresser. She wrote in her Memoirs that her "love for painting declared itself in my earliest youth". Although her father died when she was only fifteen, she earned enough money painting portraits to support her mother and her younger brother. In 1778 Vigée-Lebrun painted her first portrait from life of Queen Marie Antoinette, which assured her career as a society portraitist. The unknown artist has faithfully reinterpreted the original masterpiece the ideal of Rousseau of the merry family, through the image of the devoted Mother. In this painting the artist reproduces Raffaello?s influences, in particular Our Lady of the Chair. The painter hugs her daughter just like Our Lady does with Jesus, giving emphasis to the mother figure. The ...
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#: 00112</td>
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<tr><td>Condition:GOOD</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1894</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:ITALY</td></tr>

<tr><td>Height:30.3</td></tr>
<tr><td>Depth:2.3</td></tr>
<tr><td>Width:27.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:OIL . PORTRAIT OF VIGEE LE BRUN AND HER</td></tr>


<tr><td>Type:OIL ON CANVAS</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:ITALIA</td></tr>
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