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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]; 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 806,632 page views. Her biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun is the 95th most popular painter (up from 116th in 2019), the 283rd most popular biography from France (up from 341st in 2019) and the 28th most popular French Painter.

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

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Among painters, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun ranks 95 out of 1,421. Before her are Max Ernst, Lisa del Giocondo, Filippo Lippi, Matthias Grünewald, Vittore Carpaccio, and Andrei Rublev. After her are Claude Lorrain, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Duccio, Sofonisba Anguissola, Canaletto, and William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

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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 Samuel Hahnemann, Axel von Fersen the Younger, Alexander Hamilton, Paul Barras, James Parkinson, Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, François Joseph Lefebvre, and Georges Couthon. Among people deceased in 1842, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun ranks 2. Before her is Stendhal. After her are Luigi Cherubini, Constanze Mozart, Bernardo O'Higgins, Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Clemens Brentano, Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey, Dominique Jean Larrey, Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Pierre Cambronne.

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In France

Among people born in France, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun ranks 283 out of 6,011. Before her are Henry I of France (1008), Simone Weil (1909), Germaine de Staël (1766), Pope Urban IV (1185), Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767), and Anne of Brittany (1477). After her are Claude Lorrain (1600), Henri Moissan (1852), Louis, Grand Dauphin (1661), Eugène de Beauharnais (1781), Letizia Ramolino (1750), and Robert II of France (972).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun ranks 28. Before her are François Boucher (1703), Honoré Daumier (1808), Paul Signac (1863), Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732), Berthe Morisot (1841), and Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684). After her are Claude Lorrain (1600), William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825), Georges de La Tour (1593), Gustave Moreau (1826), Charles Le Brun (1619), and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699).

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