How Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun’s Painting Conquered Europe | Old Master Paintings | Sotheby's

This January in New York, Sotheby’s is honored to present A Scholar Collects, a sale comprised of paintings, drawings and sculptures from the collection of the preeminent scholar Joseph Baillio.
A visionary art historian who specializes in the art of eighteenth-century France, Baillio is most well-known for his expertise in the pioneering woman artist Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. Covering the scope of the artist’s illustrious career, the collection includes an early portrait of her mother, Madame Jacques François Le Sèvre, painted when Vigée was perhaps in her late teens.
More typical of the intimate portrait style that she pioneered is the stunning and impressive pastel portrait of the Duchesse de Guiche, a sitter that she would paint again during her years in exile from France. Most surprising are a group of pastel landscapes made in the opening years of the 19th Century, when Vigée was traveling in England and France. These are works of great lyricism, and appear to be decades before their time. The gem, however, is the beautiful Self-Portrait in Traveling Costume, dateable to just after her departure from France in late 1789.
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[@lindamon5101]

Brilliant❤

[@susprime7018]

Superbly presented, loved the close ups of the pastels.

[@christianfrommuslim]

Elizabeth V-L has been my favorite artist for decades. It's rare for a museum to have even one of her works, and here you have a collector with several. Amazing! BTW - viewers, if you haven't yet read E V-L's autobiography, indulge yourself and read it. It's a fascinating insight into 18th century France, packed with humor and anecdotes. For example, from it I learned that Russians had perfected central heating to the extent that she looked forward to visiting Russia in the winter, where she would be warmer than in the rest of Europe.

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One of my favorite female artists! ❤

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🥰👌🖼️🖌️🎨 * I Love the Arts...Hello from New York ~ Rob , Collector, NY. 🖼️🎨🖌️😘🙏

[@dongiogarciasantiago2864]

❤❤❤ 6:50 am Tue 30/01/24 For decades I loved visiting her painting at the National Gallery in London. Female Power. Pure beauty painting.

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[@israeldiegoriveragenius2th164]

Woman were supposed to be suppressed artists, yet she was heavily celebrated in her own time because she was a woman.

[@jimmymack4079]

Please do not spread incorrect histories like this. You as an art historian can name 100 more women painters of the same period. Le Brun was one of many. Please do not belittle the history of women by suggesting that there was just one.