Louise Élisabeth's Life And Accomplishments

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Louise Élisabeth Vigée- le brun was a French painter Born on April 16th 1755 in the Rococo and Neoclassical styles. Her father was Louis Vigée a Famous Painter during the time, he was a member of the Académie de Sainte-luc. And he mother was a Hairdresser. She received her first art lessons from her Father with him being the famous portraitist that he was instructed his little Élisabeth in how to paint. She had inherted the gift of art that her possessed. She was admitted in the “L’académie de Saint-Luc” by Davesne who was on great terms with her father. He was a member and deputy professor at l’académie during her time here she showed great progress becoming a great source of pride to her father. In the year 1768 on the ninth day of May…show more content…
Only at the age of 15 everyone in france wanted a portrait painted by this little girl. A little after her fifteenth birthday her mother remarried a famous French jeweler named Le Sevre. After she got married he moved his new family to Chaillot. During this time Élisabeth met Madame Suzanne the wife of the sculpter. Mme. Suzanne would take little Élisabeth with her to the countryside for walks during these stols thes particular one at Marly she met for the First time, the future queen of france, Marie Antoinette. In 1770 when they found François Boucher dead, she became a very celebrated artist, she had the Gems of the fashion world; the nobilwoman of the French court, princesses, dutchesses, and the celebrities of the time flocking to her studio, she also had the doors of Faubourg St. Germain Opened to her. She was in touch with the famopus artists of the day like Le Moyne, Blunt Quentin de LA tour and the rest. Four years after her great fame begane to spread on October 25th 1774, she was elected into L’académie de Sainte-Luc at only Nineteen years old. She was Marie antoinettes favorite portraitist. She painted 30 portraits of the queen in a decade, she even held residence in

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