Self-portrait (Q23037735)

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genre: self-portrait (Q192110)
artist: Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (Q213163)
collection: Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629) Charles Sedelmeyer collection (Q117293910)
location: Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
owned by: Charles Sedelmeyer (Q2960213) Valentine Noémi Rothschild (Q75527149) Kay Kimbell (Q6380224)
main subject: Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (Q213163)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
exhibition history: America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting (Q115965480)
depicts: Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (Q213163) bow (Q46311) hat (Q80151)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)
Google Arts & Culture asset ID: AgEO_lHRPFUrrw

catalog URL: https://www.kimbellart.org/collection-object/self-portrait-0

information from the Kimbell Art Museum catalog

description: This youthful self-portrait depicts Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun at the age of about twenty-six, several years after she painted the first of her many portraits of Queen Marie-Antoinette. Here she presents herself not as an artist, with palette and brushes, but as a charming and attractive lady of society––indistinguishable from her own patrons, including the queen and aristocratic ladies, whom she sometimes painted in similar informal attire. Largely self-taught, Vigée Le Brun was recommended by the queen for membership in the Royal Academy in 1783 and soon acquired considerable fame and renown. When shown at the Salon her paintings were “the most highly praised . . . the topics of conversation at court and in Paris, in suppers, in literary circles."

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