A bust length portrait of a seated white man with curled, powdered hair and a 5 o'clock shadow, wearing a salmon-colored jacket with gold frogging over a white shirt. His body faces toward the right edge of the painting, but her turns his head toward his right shoulder so that the viewer has a 3/4 view of his face. His right arm is bent to cross his body; he holds a stylus in his right hand.

Portrait of an Artist, 1773, by #ElisabethVigeeLeBrun (French, 1755-1842), who was born #otd, Apr 16. Held by @risd1877.bsky.social Museum, risdmuseum.org/art-design/c... #womenartists #artherstory

An oval shaped painting of a long-haired white woman in a white gown with gold trim, cradling a lyre against her right side. Her left forearm reaches across her body so that her left fingers touch the strings.

Portrait of a Young Woman Playing a Lyre, late 1780s, by #ElisabethVigeeLeBrun (French, 1755-1842), who died #otd, March 30. Held by the Cincinnati Art Museum, collection.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/objects/1089... #artherstory #womenartists

🎨 #ElisabethVigeeLebrun, French painter, #DOTD 30 March 1842. #Art #Painting

A 3/4 length portrait of a white woman with powdered hair, wearing a white gown with a gauzy ruffle at the neckline and a gauzy gold sash at the waist, tied in the back. On her head is a brimmed straw hat with a pale blue ribbon and a large fluffy blue feather. She stands at a small (barely visible) desk on which sits a bowl of cut flowers. She holds a rose isn her left hand, around the stem of which she wraps a blue ribbon with her right hand.

Marie Antoinette [who was born #otd, Nov 2] in a Muslin Dress, 1783, by #ElisabethVigeeLeBrun (French, 1755-1842). Held by Schloss Wolfsgarten; image found at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ma... #womenartists #artherstory

A portrait of a woman in C18th apparel (a blue vest and train over a white gown, with a gauzy white neck scarf) seated in an interior near a small table on which stands a vase of flowers. Her right hand, resting in her lap, holds a red book. Her feet rest on a stool, under which is a flowered rug.

Portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, c. 1788, by #ElisabethVigeeLeBrun (French, 1755-1842). Held by the New Orleans Museum of Art, noma.org/collection/p... #artherstory #womenartists #BastilleDay #HappyBastilleDay

Book cover featuring the face and shoulders portion of the artist's self-portrait in a straw hat, with the book title/subtitle and author name in buttercup-yellow text.

Exciting to see the Kirkus review of

Daring
The Life and Art of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
by Jordana Pomeroy

www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

The book is forthcoming this summer from Getty Publications.

#ElisabethVigeeLeBrun #womenartists #artherstory

"La Comtesse de La Patinoire était probablement un Travesti" par Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, feutre Crayola sur Parchemin de loutre albinos. J'ATTENDS TOUJOURS MON SPONSORING PAR CRAYOLA ! #Crayola #travesti #tranvestite #elisabethvigeelebrun #tabouleh

A long-haired, white-skinned woman seated on a forest-green couch with gold trim looks up at the viewer from the book she holds in her right hand, propped on a large pillow that matches the couch. She wears a broad brimmed hat covered in blue ribbon, and a voluminous white long-sleeved gown, with a blue ribbon around the waist that matches her hat.

Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848), 1789, by #ElisabethVigeeLeBrun (French, 1755-1842), who was born #otd, Apr 16. Held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #womenartists #artherstory

C'est difficile à décrire sans être vulgaire.

Portrait de Mademoiselle Athénayse de Kikkenproumpf-Forsythe avec un chiotte en faience sur la tête. #elisabethvigeelebrun #versailles #marieantoinette #tabouleh

A 3/4-length 18th-century portrait of a woman in a red gown over a white underdress, wearing a white cap with a long train and an olive green cloak or scarf. Her body faces to the right side of the painting but her head is turned over her right shoulder to look at the viewer. Standing next to her on a ledge, gazing off to the side, is a dark-haired young girl in a blue dress with white trim.

Madame Rousseau and Her Daughter, 1789, by #ElisabethVigeeLeBrun (French, 1755-1842), who died #otd, March 30. Held by @museelouvre.bsky.social, collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335... #artherstory #womenartists #HappyMothersDay (UK) #MothersDay

🎨 #ElisabethVigeeLebrun, French painter, #DOTD 30 March 1842. #Art #Painting

Wow, Today Is Art Day has issued a fabulous set of 8 new magnetic bookmarks featuring #womenartists! For full details, visit www.todayisartday.com/collections/...

#SuzanneValadon #ElisabethVigeeLeBrun #TamaradeLempicka #MaryCassatt #EvelynDeMorgan #BertheMorisot #FridaKahlo #HilmaAfKlint

The Duchesse de Polignac Wearing a Straw Hat, 1782, by #ElisabethVigeeLeBrun (French, 1755-1842), who was born #otd, Apr 16. Held by @TheWadsworth; source, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%C... #womenartists #artherstory