In her new book, Twelve Paintings, writer Tal Sterngast explores Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, which is known for an exceptional collection of European paintings. She lands on twelve paintings from the ...

We knew it all along: eventually we’d be hearing from Madame Vigée Lebrun. There were years, of course, when no one spoke of her, when no one thought to pull her paintings out of the storage racks, to ...

I misread the title of this new account of the life and art of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) as “Darling” and thus, momentarily, feared it would perpetuate the caricature of the French ...

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Marie Antoinette with a Rose, 1783, oil on canvas, 116.8 x 88.9 cm. Lynda and Stuart Resnick. Portrait painting exhibitions rarely draw in the big crowds, but this ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1489): In so-called Old Master art, every female nude that was made by a woman also worked as a self-portrait – at least in the eyes of the male buyers and viewers of pictures. I came ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

In this video, Royal Collection curator Jennifer Scott introduces the exquisite and naturalistic style of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun through a portrait she painted of the French finance minister, Charles ...

SOME artists never live to enjoy acclaim. Vincent Van Gogh died in obscurity, having sold only one painting. Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, a French portraitist working in the decades before and after the ...

15 x 20.9 cm. (5.9 x 8.2 in.) N. Jeffares, "Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun," Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, London 2006, online edition [http://www ...