Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun (16 April 1755, Paris - March 30, 1842, ibid) - a French artist.

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Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun (Fr.? lisabeth-Louise Vig? e-Le Brun, née Viger, Lebrun for her husband, April 16, 1755, Paris - March 30, 1842, ibid) - French painter .

first received art lessons from his father, then the benefit of advice by Jean Baptiste Greuze, Joseph Vernet, Gabriel Francois Doyen and other masters. Already in the late 1760-ies. Viger drew quite professional: indirect evidence of its success could be the fact that her shop was formally closed by the authorities for lack of a young artist of the patent.
In 1776 Viger was married to Jean Baptiste Pierre Lebrun, a painter and, to a greater extent , merchant painting. Communications have increased the popularity of her husband's young artist-portretistki among the French aristocracy, and finally Vigee-Lebrun was invited to Versailles to paint the Queen. Marie Antoinette was very much appreciated the work of artist and covered it with additional orders, and in 1783 had, for their part, some pressure on the French art establishment, in order to Vigee-Lebrun was successfully elected to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.

C 1780. Vigee-Lebrun many traveled to Europe (often with her husband), working in different countries. At these visits it was written portraits of royal personages, politicians and other prominent figures: in Holland, Vigee-Lebrun wrote later King Willem I, in Russia in 1795-1799 years. - Last Polish king, Stanislas Poniatowski, the Grand Duchess Anna Feodorovnu (wife of Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich) and other members of the imperial family. In various countries, Vigee-Lebrun also elected to the local Academy of Fine Arts.

Brun, Vigee-Le (Painting on Gallerix.ru)

After waiting so the French Revolution, Vigee-Lebrun returned to France at the invitation of Napoleon and until 1814 lived mostly on his estate in Luvesene, and when with the advent of the allied forces on the Paris mansion was occupied by the Prussian army, returned to Paris. Vigee-Lebrun left extensive memoirs, published in France in the years 1835-1837. The Russian part of which is "Memoirs of Madame Vigee-Lebrun of her stay in St. Petersburg and Moscow, 1795-1801: With an appendix of her letters to the princess Kurakina" translated and published in Russian (St. Petersburg: Art-St., 2004. - 298.).
Vigee-Lebrun left 660 portraits and 200 landscapes. Brushwork of its clear and precise, perhaps most vividly different self-portraits, which she wrote a lot and willingly.