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Title: Vigee Le Brun
Author: Haldane MacFall
Release Date: October 22, 2009 [EBook #30314]
Language: English
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[Illustration: Cover art]
MASTERPIECES
IN COLOUR
EDITED BY --
T. LEMAN HARE
VIGEE LE BRUN
1755-1842
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PLATE I.--MARIE ANTOINETTE. Frontispiece
(At Versailles)
The first portrait that Vigee Le Brun painted, in her twenty-fourth
year (1779) of Marie Antoinette. Here is no hint of the tragedy that
was to overwhelm the handsome young daughter of Austria; all was as yet
but gaiety and roses and sunshine and pleasant airs, and the glamour
that hovers about a throne. But there are signs of the imperious
temper of her house, combined with the levity and frivolity of manners
which were so early to make her unpopular.
[Illustration: Plate I.]
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Vigee Le Brun
BY HALDANE MACFALL
ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT
REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR
[Illustration: Title page art]
LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK
NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.
1907
CONTENTS
I. The Beginnings
II. The Wonderful Child
III. Marriage and Motherhood
IV. Marie Antoinette
V. Sweet Exile
VI. The End
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Plate
I. Marie Antoinette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
At Versailles
II. Madame Vigee Le Brun and Child
In the Louvre
III. Madame Vigee Le Brun and Child
In the Louvre
IV. Portrait of Madame Vigee Le Brun
In the National Gallery, London
V. The two elder Children of Marie Antoinette
At Versailles
VI. Portrait of Madame Mole-Raymond
In the Louvre
VII. Marie Antoinette and her Children
At Versailles
VIII. Peace bringing back Plenty
In the Louvre
[Illustration: Vigee Le Brun]
I
THE BEGINNIN
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