on Characteristics --
The Authoress Loses Her Husband, Daughter and Brother --
Conclusion 200

APPENDIX

List of Madame Vigee Lebrun's Paintings 215

INDEX 229

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

MADAME VIGEE LEBRUN AND HER DAUGHTER _Frontispiece_

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THE DUCHESS D'ANGOULEME AND HER BROTHER, THE DAUPHIN 10

MADAME VIGEE LEBRUN 16
Marked: "Virginia Lebrun, St. Luke's Gallery, Rome"

PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHORESS 20

MARIE ANTOINETTE, DONE IN 1779 24
Madame Lebrun's First Portrait of the Queen, Destined for
Presentation to the Emperor Joseph II. Marie Antoinette
Ordered Two Copies, One for the Emperor of Russia and
One for Herself

PORTRAIT OF MARIE ANTOINETTE AND HER CHILDREN 28
Known as "The Royal Family," Exhibited at the Paris Salon
of 1788, the Year Before the Outbreak of the Revolution

MADAME ELISABETH, SISTER OF LOUIS XVI 30

THE DAUPHIN 32
Son of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette

MADAME LEBRUN, THE AUTHORESS, NEE ELISABETH VIGEE 34

PEACE BRINGING BACK PLENTY 36
Exhibited by Madame Lebrun at the French Royal Academy
of Painting, on Her Election as a Member of That
Institution

MADAME VIGEE LEBRUN AND HER DAUGHTER 42

THE DAUPHIN OF FRANCE 50

THE BARONESS DE CRUSSOL 58

MARIE CAROLINE, WIFE OF FERDINAND IV. OF NAPLES 64

PRINCESS CHRISTINE, DAUGHTER OF FERDINAND IV. OF NAPLES 70

MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE 76

QUEEN MARIE ANTOINETTE 80

THE PRINCESS DE TALLEYRAND 90

ISABEL CZARTORYSKA 100
A Polish Noblewoman

THE DUCHESS DE POLIGNAC 112

QUEE