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Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

1755 - 1842

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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French: [elizabɛt lwiz viʒe lə bʁœ̃]; née Vigée; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun or simply as Madame Le Brun, was a French painter who mostly specialized in portrait painting, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Her artistic style is generally considered part of the aftermath of Rococo with elements of an adopted Neoclassical style. Her subject matter and color palette can be classified as Rococo, but her style is aligned with the emergence of Neoclassicism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun has received more than 867,900 page views. Her biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun is the 82nd most popular painter (up from 95th in 2019), the 242nd most popular biography from France (up from 283rd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Painter.

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun is most famous for her portraits of Marie Antoinette.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun ranks 82 out of 2,023. Before her are Cimabue, Gustave Doré, Diego Rivera, François Boucher, Alfred Sisley, and Jackson Pollock. After her are Canaletto, Pietro Perugino, Berthe Morisot, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Honoré Daumier, and Duccio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun ranks 3. Before her are Marie Antoinette, and Louis XVIII of France. After her are Paul Barras, Axel von Fersen the Younger, Alexander Hamilton, Samuel Hahnemann, Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Georges Couthon, James Parkinson, and Giovanni Battista Viotti. Among people deceased in 1842, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun ranks 2. Before her is Stendhal. After her are Luigi Cherubini, Bernardo O'Higgins, Constanze Mozart, Clemens Brentano, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Dominique Jean Larrey, Pierre Cambronne, and Peter Fendi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun ranks 242 out of 6,770. Before her are Joseph Fouché (1759), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), Jeanne Calment (1875), Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1640), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894), and Richard II of England (1367). After her are Jean-Michel Jarre (1948), Simone Weil (1909), Berthe Morisot (1841), Oscar I of Sweden (1799), Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732), and Pope Callixtus II (1065).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun ranks 23. Before her are Georges Seurat (1859), Henri Rousseau (1844), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), Gustave Doré (1832), François Boucher (1703), and Alfred Sisley (1839). After her are Berthe Morisot (1841), Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732), Honoré Daumier (1808), Francis Picabia (1879), Paul Signac (1863), and Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684).

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