The Remarkable Talent Of Elizabeth Vigée Lebrun | Portraits of Marie Antoinette Pt. 1

[@CariadChavez]

Here for the algorithm to ask for more films on female artists!

[@bpartworks]

Bravo! So delighted to see a documentary on a female artist who was nurtured and given the chance to formulate her craft. Not many women artist out there that are known, I very much appreciate Perspective to give us such a good documentary that we all can learn from. Thank you and Happy New Year everyone!

[@heaven7360]

women were and still are an oppressed people

[@airmark02]

I know its terrible , i can only think of 2 Women artists who have had any fame or recognition of their genius. Its a miracle that the patriarchy allowed this documentary to exist.,,, lol.

[@uTubeAshby]

Excellent documentary which describes the context of how a female artist was able to succeed in a field controlled by men. Her artist father & his friends gave her access to cultural assets & allowed her to observe & learn from many successful artists. Her wit charmed people that had to sit for portraits & she was able to earn royal patronage to enter the the Royal Academy in spite of being married to a drunken gambling art dealer. She was able to succeed while staying in the only minor fields allowed to women by adding elements of historic allegory using only female models. She held successful salons including creating an homage to a classic Athenian feast. A brilliant woman & amazing artist who created her own technical solutions for the external constraints she had to navigate. Thank you for this insightful & beautiful documentary.

[@jenniferjohnston4403]

This is one of the coolest documentaries I’ve seen in a while. I hadn’t heard of this artist yet I’m familiar with her work. Cheers 🥂

[@TheReevessss]

A blessed genius female artist, fame & genius Supressed by a certain group of others. God would weep.

[@catholiccrusader5328]

This was an excellent documentary. Ms. Lebrun was, according to this video, a true artist, excellent mother and wife, a real beauty but most of all an excellent human being. I bet her parents were proud of her. I wouldn't know what to say in the presence of such a rare person if I would have met her.

[@anthonysvokos2697]

Her memoirs are an absolute joy to read.

[@brightbulb9778]

Wonderful documentary. Looking forward to part 2.

[@MaudMargretheRex]

Indeed

[@dreioo8759]

What a gift for the new year! Have a great 2022, thank you for your wonderful videos over the years!

[@lynnebarnes3840]

The number of talented women out there who never got recognized must be legion.

[@WatcherLilly]

This was such an unexpected find for me. She is fascinating and brilliant!

[@sobekmania]

I love Lebrun’s art. She paints with such detail and care that her portraits of people carry such elegance and authenticity. Her portraits of Marie Antoinette are composed in such a beautiful manner, and they depict Antoinette as a respectable, graceful figure, even when most of France believed her to be stupid and lavish. I’m very glad that her art has been preserved.

[@anjadiedrich2316]

Eine wunderbare Deko, Danke! Hatte noch nie von Elizabeth Vig'ee Lebrun gehört...Einfach fantastisch!

[@stephanmotzek779]

Thanks !!

[@cesarlorenzo_._]

The delicate traits on her painting is the oldest photoshop I’ve ever seen!!! When I saw her self portrait…my mouth dropped! 😱

[@XtreamBrands]

Loved this can’t wait until part 2

[@janiceleeripley443]

Thank you this was such a beautiful film. I look forward to part two.

[@TheJohnGent1]

Fascinating. When will you post Part 2 ?

[@ΜαιρηΤριποδη]

Tres educatif , merci beaucoup.

[@marcusjimmerson7929]

Hello

[@einezcrespo2107]

Thank you Perspective! Please part 2.

[@annecampbell9236]

Elizabeth is one of my favourite female artists.

[@kathydent2116]

Such a shame that the word female entered that sentence.

[@maarten-jandongelmans7739]

Very entertaining this beautiful documentary.

[@crystalheart9]

Thanks for this very interesting documentary, I enjoyed it so much.

[@mapuaharry]

Merci for the English version 😍

[@sandragrundy1516]

Excellent! A lady unknown to me so I have increased my knowledge. Thank you, have subscribed.

[@marcusjimmerson7929]

Hello Sandra

[@ОльгаВикторовна-ц1ы]

I adore Her. And I am grateful to you for the film. An amazing Painter!

[@hilohahoma1547]

Who is uploading these, great documentary about this remarkable woman, it says PART ONE , NOW WHERE IS PART 2 WTH Perspective.

[@swissmiss572]

I was so taken by her Mémoires and now found this ! Merveilleux !

[@evelyntalaricosretutotetuy7208]

Gracias for that documentary ,is interesting .

[@lynnblack6493]

On to Part 2.

[@charlesjones5251]

Perfect!

[@artsiecrafty4164]

I wonder why we hear so little about this wonderful artist.

[@phoenixrising2268]

Because she was a woman, of course.

[@mollydooker9636]

Oh I think it’s fairly obvious why.

[@patriciapalmer1377]

2 FRENCH MAVERICKS Lebrun's decision of a comfortable light cotton muslin for portraiture, and white cotton dress with simple colored belt and not the elaborate costume of the day, reminds me of Chanel's design decision of a simple jersey dress, an underwear fabric, as the muslin was earlier, and Chanel's eschewing the corset, the freeing natural design shocked society, was beloved by women, and changed the face of fashion forever.

[@artsiecrafty4164]

I think she was taking up the lead of Marie Antoinette who was “revolutionary “ in her white muslin dresses,

[@reinadegrillos]

I always loved her work. Thank you. I can¡t find the second part.

[@bettyp5669]

Fascinating

[@sharonallison9922]

AN AMAZING BEAUTIFUL INTELLIGENT WOMAN....I KNOW OF HER WORK.....💝

[@marcusjimmerson7929]

Hello Sharon

[@lynda8852]

Thank you for this video I had not heard of this painter. So interesting Best wishes Lynda

[@kristybarnes2563]

Beautiful painter & paintings.

[@hilohahoma1547]

I love this brilliant artist so clever to outwit those lechers gazing at her so and at the same time fixing a cultural pattern related to masculine ambition to adventure.

[@kaloarepo288]

There are several other noted female painters of this era like Rosalba Carriera,Angelica Kauffman and Artemisia Gentileschi.Also music historians are also discovering more and more female composers.

[@darrendazcox]

One of my favorite artists of all time and it does matter that she was a woman, not for the agenda-driven "men are repressing women' crying but for her ability to show a 'softer' side to the reality of the human experience, one men are less able or likely to allow themselves to show - no one said life is fair but if one woman was competing with men in art then many more were - the problems of course are that women were not able to climb scaffolds to paint epic ceiling murals, just as talented yes but did they have the raw muscle power to paint a ceiling fresco - no. Men are stronger than women, that's not offensive it is reality - only the fittest physical people are able to compete with the most epic masters. Even today in this modern world where anyone can do anything if they are wealthy enough, the typical female artist prefers more intimate work - men are not stopping a modern female Tiepolo or Michelangelo challenger from making an epic ceiling mural but you need muscle power - you must enjoy being dirty and sweaty, covered in paint and risking life and limb to paint like the men did - yes, men did overly protect women to the point they were stifled but an intelligent woman can claim her spot as a master painter if she is clever enough - Liz was! At my humble peasant level day job - the women fight amongst themselves in embarrassing displays of juvenility far more than the men do , women don't pick fights with men over trivial things unless there is a good reason - in fact women seem to calm down when men are around. I used to think women wore make up to please men until I understood that they wear make up to be in some hierarchy of beauty that puts them in competition with each other, women are far more emotionally complex than men typically are - that's just our nature and while you might consider this a toxic male opinion or whatever, you know I am only reporting the facts as I have experienced them.

[@darrendazcox]

How lucky to have had the opportunity to see and study the work of Rubens and be able to practice it - I feel like I am limiting my self by having not painted on wood panels yet but the only sad thing about the whole story of our favorite woman painter is that the world will never be that romantic again, no carriages spiriting the maiden away with her treasure from a ravenous mob to become an exotic and talented celebrity while maintaining a demure profile in a world of Rococo buildings - that has to be the best case scenario other than being a scullery maid who could duck off into the back rooms whenever she wanted with whomever she wanted, eat all the luxury food without having to be dainty and having hilariously posh people to act snarky about!

[@carlosvagner5721]

🇧🇷🏡 Gracias 🎨🖌️

[@albadiaz6180]

Beautifull

[@delenegillen539]

Determined, driven, entrepreneurial and fiercely independent.

[@karenhodges7545]

So much culture. Things chamge. Great storytelling

[@amandajstar]

Who put Meryl Streep in a time machine to play the harp-playing Marie Antoinette?

[@GVF2u]

Does anyone know the name of the opera aria & its composer? The aria is sung by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun while she's being accompanied by Marie Antoinette on the harp! That brief performance occurs at about 25 minutes into this excellent documentary. Btw, part 2 is already up on this same channel.

[@joneysingh3570]

Wonderful. Kindly make a video on Franz xaver winterhalter, a German artist who painted royal portraits of France & England

[@Happyheretic2308]

His Empress Elizabeth is astonishing

[@盧璘壽로인수]

@@Happyheretic2308 as well as his Eugénie surrounded by her ladies

[@artsiecrafty4164]

Is this a two part video? It seems to end abruptly.

[@barrycrump6189]

When you compare the daubs produced by the likes of David Hockney or Lucian Freud to the wonderful creations of Elizabeth Vigée Lebrun you realise that modern artists have been playing a game of Emporer's new clothes.

[@AlvaSudden]

Agree. It's past time for representative art to come back in style. Modern art had its place in the 1920's, but it's been washed up for decades.

[@kathydent2116]

You seem to be completely ignorant of what modern art is about. In a world where everyone has a camera, painting has to be about more than realism.

[@thomasjamison2050]

Rule #1 when painting a female: No matter how severely they frown, you have to give just the hint of a smile in the frown.

[@ladedalounge]

Nice Bust line...

[@carolclark5776]

What a wealthy middle class looks like

[@123julesl]

❤❤

[@МананаХутиева]

Как вас смотреть, если нет перевода?

[@johandewitt9911]

I am 85 y.o. so I feel an old soul now.

[@jazw4649]

Where's Waldemar?

[@vladimirkuzminpolivoks]

However there is one inaccuracy in this docimentory:: she was left-handed artist.

[@amandajstar]

Bit of a shame that the male VO / narrator doesn't know fairly basic art terms (such as chiaroscuro), nor languages, and can't pronounce them reliably. It doesn't bother me because I know how they are pronounced, but less informed viewers should not take his pronunciations as correct.

[@KLASSCULTURE]

💯

[@marcusjimmerson7929]

Hello Deirdre

[@gwendolynstancell1847]

ETIENNE...🤗🧓🌹🙏 1/16/2022 SUNDAY MORNING

[@AlvaSudden]

TImes have changed. Ten years ago the comments would've been filled with grumpy men saying women have no talent, and asking why didn't she paint melting watches or something. Times changed because WE changed them!

[@amandajstar]

At 29:45: give me a break! It seems that academics need to see 'depictions of genitalia' wherever they look. Hence the naming of the otherwise innocent butterfly pea flower in scientific terms as Clitoria turnatea. I find it offensive that some sex maniac thought it appropriate to make us share his 'vision' (or hers, who knows?) every time we wish to discuss, search for, or precisely identify in language this flower. Why couldn't it be called the Latin for 'blue wonder'? Far more appropriate!

[@anwa6169]

Thank you. A little bit of common sense is quite refreshing.

[@amandajstar]

@@anwa6169 And I thank you in return!

[@sharonallison9922]

I TOTALLY AGREE....💝

[@amandajstar]

@@sharonallison9922 : )

[@kathydent2116]

What? You must have been looking at the wrong sea shell if you didn't see a vulva in that painting. You won't get far in the world of culture by wearing a pair of puritan spectacles.

[@newhorizon4066]

Nice craftwomanship....but why all these portraits kind of look alike>?

[@kathydent2116]

How I yearn for the restoration of the past tense to historical narratives. Clunk, clunk, clunk goes the present tense; clunkety, clunkety, clunk is the sound of the future tense failing to meet the challenge of describing the past. The French have a whole array of past tenses. The imperfect, the perfect the past historic: what a wealth of grammatical possibilities. But, no. Historians clunk along in the PRESENT tense. This could have been such an interesting documentary if only my brain weren't screaming for relief from the interminable present.

[@D3cker1]

LOL]

[@twinwankel]

Nice documentary. Though I can see why she is favored for her royal portraiture, I do not think she is a great artist. Her best paintings seem to be of herself. And in those you can see that she had potential to be a great artist. Unfortunately, she was pigeon holed as the royal portrait painter and as a result, her association with the royal family was her ultimate downfall. Ironically, her close friend David was the first portrait artist of Napoleon and ultimately went into exile as well when Napoleon fell.

[@dollimelaine]

I think she was a great artist. Survival of an artist is very much part of the story and to be such a clever woman in her time and continue to live and work is remarkable. Painting portraits is not an easy task. Do you paint?

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

I'm guessing from your opinion that "great artists" come from that of landscape, historical or genre painting, such as Thomas Kinkade or Bob Ross

[@dollimelaine]

@@hurdygurdyguy1 ja whatever...that is an insult.

[@AlvaSudden]

A constant criticism from men is that women artists aren't great because they paint mostly portraits. Of course they never say that about John Singer Sargent or Henry Raeburn. And Vigee-Lebrun did in fact paint landscapes. Research her before you criticize.

[@dollimelaine]

@@AlvaSudden Thank you I agree with you*

[@cynthiasoroka1838]

This gave me the hiccups !

[@paulmitford5189]

Where is Waldemar Januszczak when you need him? He surely will be very impressed by this French poodle.

[@TheStockwell]

He's the Robin Leach of Art presenters.

[@spicyirwin5835]

Marie A was married off so young! She & Nap didn't know how to procreate for 7 yrs till Marie's bro told Nap. This artist lived her craft in such a harder life yet I'm so glad she did poor Marie, who never knew the French were starving for never leaving the Palace. Princess Diana made sure her sons knew of the world, except for the Meghans?

[@300books]

Who is Nap?

[@spicyirwin5835]

@@300books Napoleon

[@300books]

@@spicyirwin5835 : Marie Antoinette was never married to Napoleon. She was married to Louis XVI. Napoleon was married to Josephine and then to Marie-Louise.

[@TheStockwell]

Nap? Give me a break. 🙄

[@christineludlam4170]

She would not paint looking over her right arm at the sitter!Get it right.

[@johandewitt9911]

I am 85 y.o. so I feel an old soul now.