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HELM, W. H. VIGEE-LEBRUN 1755-1842 HER LIFE, WORKS AND FRIENDSHIPS. WITH A CATALOGUE RAISONNE OF THE ARTIST'S PICTURES
Boston Small, Maynard 1915 Hardcover
4to in dark green cloth with gilt lettering and stamped in blind. With color frontis portrait and 40 photogravure plates and other illustrations. Light foxing to front and back matter, otherwise a very good copy. (Elizabeth-Louise Vigee Le Brun, 1755-1842, one of the few female members of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, was a favorite of Marie Antoinette and highly successful in her portraits of the nobility. During the French Revolution she lived and worked in Italy, Austria and Russia, winning awards and honors in each place. She was repatriated during the reign of Emperor Napoleon I but continued to work throughout Europe including England. She completed more that 600 portraits and 200 landscapes.)
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95.00 USD
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