Vigée Le Brun

In Our Time: Culture by BBC

Jul 23, 202656:23Society & Culture

Misha Glenny and guests discuss the French portrait painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755 - 1842). From her teens she delighted her high society subjects in and around Paris, notably Marie Antoinette who she painted arou...

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