Vigée-Lebrun returns from exile

Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842) was one of the most prolific painters of her era, creating up to 1000 works of art, the majority of them portraits.

In the 1780s she was the official portraitist of Marie-Antoinette, an association that forced her …

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