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Arch Facial Plast Surg. 2005;7:364.

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Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun was one of the most successful female portraitists of the 18th century. She began her career painting the nobility of France’s Ancien Regime (the political and social system that existed before the Revolution of 1789) and in her years of exile achieved international acclaim working in the major royal courts of Europe. Vigée-Le Brun was born in Paris in 1755, the daughter of Louis Vigée, a pastel artist who probably taught his daughter the rudiments of painting before his death in 1767. Despite her lack of formal training in art, the young Elisabeth was a celebrated prodigy who joined the Academie de St Luc in 1775 at the age of 19. The following year she married the art critic and dealer Jean Baptiste Pierre Le Brun, who helped promote his wife’s career among the fashionable circles of French society. In 1778, Vigée-Le Brun painted the first . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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