@article{413531,
      recid = {413531},
      author = {May, Gita. and Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth,},
      title = {Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun the odyssey of an artist in an age  of revolution / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Yale University Press,},
      address = {New Haven [Conn.] :},
      pages = {237 p., 16 p. of plates :},
      year = {2005},
      abstract = {The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigée Le  Brun (1755-1842) exerted her considerable charm to become  the friend, and then official portraitist, of Marie  Antoinette. Though profitable, this role made her a public  and controversial figure, and in 1789 it precipitated her  exile. In a Europe torn by strife and revolution, this  singularly gifted and high-spirited woman nevertheless  managed to thrive as an independent, self-supporting  artist, doggedly setting up studios in Rome, Naples,  Venice, Milan, Vienna, St. Petersburg, and London. Long  overlooked or dismissed, Vigée Le Brun's portraits now hang  in the Louvre, in a room of their own, as well as in all  leading art museums of the world. Illustrations include  sixteen of her portraits presented in full color.--From  publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/413531},
}