An Introduction to Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun

An Introduction to Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun | National Gallery

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5 жыл бұрын

Painting royalty, fleeing revolution. At just 15-years-old, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was painting the aristocracy. In her 20s she was the favoured painter of Marie Antoinette, And by her 30s she was fleeing the French Revolution.
Learn more about this 18th-century portrait painter with curator Francesca Whitlum-Cooper.
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@christianfrommuslim 2 жыл бұрын

Vigee Le Brun has been my favorite artist for decades. I recommend her autobiography.

@elisesimone8121 2 жыл бұрын

I was so happy when I realised she’d written a book. I’m reading it right now. It’s so interesting to read a book from someone who has experienced French Court and knew Marie Antoinette personally. I love pre-revolution France.

@christianfrommuslim 2 жыл бұрын

@@elisesimone8121 Exactly!

@christianfrommuslim 2 жыл бұрын

@@elisesimone8121 "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."

@martycrow Жыл бұрын

As I recall, Sian Evans translated the full original into English with Le Brun's additional notes, pen portraits and so on. Not sure it is still in print. It was published in the late 80s, but worth hunting down a pre-loved copy.

@PortugalZeroworldcup 4 ай бұрын

One year elder to Mozart 🇫🇷

@wrennsimms6458 4 жыл бұрын

I wish they had shown more of her works. She painted over 600 portraits, and she did much more than just portraits. Her allegory paintings (something that women painters were usually not allowed to do.. she just did it) are wonderful. It was seeing her paintings at a show at the Metropolitan Museum in NY a few years ago that made me realize I had to recreate the gowns I was seeing. So far I've done the Duchess du Berry in Blue velvet , and I've done the black dress from her self portrait from 1790 for a close friend. I will do more. :)

@just1desi 3 жыл бұрын

Oh lovely. Do you have an instagram or facebook with pics?

@katherine2447 3 жыл бұрын

Her daughter, Julie died

@AlphabetCookie 3 жыл бұрын

"something that women painters were usually not allowed to do" Nope. They were allowed to do them...

@brandonlizzle523 2 жыл бұрын

I was introduced to Vigee Le Brun with her work of Theresa Countess Kinsky at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena CA. Fell in love with Vigee Le Brun after looking up her other works, leading up to her self portrait. Ahh what a talent. It's a bucket list item to visit her.

@HeySergioMata 4 жыл бұрын

Such a hero. Hollywood should make a movie about her!

@RinaElsayed773 4 жыл бұрын

Sergio C. Mata there is a good movie about her

@paperfox8794 3 жыл бұрын

@@RinaElsayed773 Really? Care to share the title?

@doughartley3513 3 жыл бұрын

Yes and a movie about Atemisia Gentileschi

@Alfred-oz3zy Жыл бұрын

Possibly without the woke/rainbow undertone

@christianfrommuslim 4 ай бұрын

A miniseries!

@eddie_d1233 5 жыл бұрын

I saw an exhibit of her paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art a couple of years ago and she is an extremely accomplished painter. The Met has a number of Mary Cassatt paintings, also very accomplished.

@hamburgerhelperflick 5 жыл бұрын

I saw the same show. it was mindblowing!

@grecellopez9369 3 жыл бұрын

Dear National Gallery - I love these types of videos. Short and sweet yet very informative. I would love to see more of these type of videos. Thank you for posting this.

@ellaspainting9810 4 жыл бұрын

I saw this picture in London last year. and I read about her in a book, But it's great to hear the explanation and see the picture again. Thanks for sharing! :)

@christianfrommuslim 2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps you would enjoy her autobiography; very lively!

@jduduei2o2 4 жыл бұрын

wow thankyou this was a great video

@simplysavyyy 4 жыл бұрын

Love her work she was so talented

@mikei6605 3 жыл бұрын

she became famous at 20, meanwhile, I'm turning 20 in two months and living in my mom's attic while doing online art school... lol

@doughartley3513 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Mikei, you’re doing what you love, and that’s very cool. Keep going. Show us some of your art.

@AkaMagenta 2 жыл бұрын

We all start somewhere….🎨🖼🖌😁

@tenbears4910 5 жыл бұрын

love her paintings and this was an interesting talk, but the cinematography was a little schizophrenic, with too many split screens and zoom-ins. Very distracting

@mr.perfect8746 5 жыл бұрын

I don't know why documentaries feel they have to be edgy. The music is terrible too.

@lucreziawalker1955 4 жыл бұрын

Agree, music is distracting.

@AD-hs2bq 2 жыл бұрын

What is the choppy video editing about? Why the yellow half frames repeated? Don’t you think the viewer can focus on something for more than 3 seconds? My sense is that this video treatment trivializes the presentation. This is a remarkable artist with considerable influence in the 18th century. Enjoyed knowing more about her.

@worldartsmidy2513 3 жыл бұрын

Beaucoup de grands Artistes-Peintres chez nous en France. Elisabeth Vigier Lebrun, Boucher, Poussin, Manet, Monet, Picasso,etc... il y en a tellement que l'on ne peut tous les citer.👌👀👍.

@MrOuchterlony Жыл бұрын

Picasso, plutot Espagnol, non ?

@NikolayTach 3 жыл бұрын

The elementary school that I went to was named after her.

@kaymuldoon3575 14 күн бұрын

Oh interesting! Where is that located, if you don’t mind sharing? If not I’ll google it.

@bittersweet-hz3pf 2 жыл бұрын

This is vary helpful, i am watching this for school, we are supposed to pick artist to write about-

@jeaniecolaianni8096 11 ай бұрын

The University of Arizona art museum, UAMA, has a beautiful LeBrun portrait: The Countess von Schonfeld with her Daughter, 1793. The tenderness and love that radiates from this painting is so powerful. Thank you for this wonderful vignette of LeBrun's life, truly a remarkable artist.

@tubeyou89119 9 ай бұрын

I knew nothing about the painter until I saw 2:44 this sweet lively girl in the National Gallery... it's love at first sight... now I am obsessed with the her works❤

@robertwheeler8149 Жыл бұрын

Very inspiring! Unbelievably lovely. Moser expressed the same evaluation of her over Michelangelo to William Blake.

@tamastakacs3810 Жыл бұрын

My favourite painter 😁

@gouvyrock 2 жыл бұрын

wow beautiful paintings-talented artist

@user-qu5hc8ul7r 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@michaeljohnangel6359 Жыл бұрын

Another excellent video. Bravi. Dr Whitlam-Cooper is always brilliant (she also looks a lot like Emily Blunt, and, like Ms Blunt, she is lovely) - she is davvero simpatica (and erudite)!

@divinodayacap3313 2 ай бұрын

She's so pretty

@bonnievysotsky6311 2 жыл бұрын

Madame Curator, you look just like her!

@steveg8322 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing, absolutely beautiful images.

@glenncheney906 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice lecture, but I'd rather see more work and hear less music.

@onitasanders7403 3 жыл бұрын

Why are we looking at the same portrait over and over again. Now was the time to show a variety, even if it is only three or four more of her works or do we have to Google her name to see them. I was fascinated and disappointed at the same time in this presentation made even more disconcerting for me by the choice of background music. Well at least a new female artist name was made known to me. Thank you for that. Perhaps you were highlighting what is on display at the National Gallery.

@martycrow 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, the video was highlighting what is on display at the National Gallery.

@garyrebholz4139 4 жыл бұрын

Same earings as those worn by Marie Antoinette in Vigée Le Brun's portrait of her with her children?

@barclay124 5 жыл бұрын

I'm afraid this new format of presenting the paintings was not for me, I'll look forward to more of the simple format presentations.

@olgarebman2538 2 жыл бұрын

Her self portrait in Kimbell museum Fort Worth USA doing eye contact w you from deep right to deep left movement in front! ))) it’s a super !!!!

@Spetet 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe not let the intern edit the video.

@user-oj8hr3wu6e Жыл бұрын

감사합니다. 초상화를 처음 본 순간 느꼈던 저의 느낌과 동일하네요. 그녀가 입고 있는 옷은, 귀족이나 왕비의 것 보다 훨씬 값싼 것이지만, 이상하게도 그녀 자신의 초상화가 제일 예뻣습니다. 아마도 자신의 미적 심미안 에서, "예쁘다는 것" 은 , 마리 앙투아네트 왕비에게도 뻇길수 없던 것이 아니었을까 합니다.

@brianjosephestanislao3511 5 жыл бұрын

"I can go one better than Rubens". What an amusing video.

@tomasvaitkus4139 4 жыл бұрын

Why this awful noisy sound track???!!! Really disturbing. Not passing. So sorry for that.

@oneeyedphotographer 5 жыл бұрын

Rubbish camera technique. I subscribed hoping to learn something about art, but those random jumpcuts make the experience unenjoyable.

@Voltaireooooo 11 ай бұрын

A stunning artist.

@johnwhite7320 2 жыл бұрын

I see a resemblance between you and the artist.

@stevebuk100 5 жыл бұрын

Did not like this at all, too much switching all over the place, annoying music drowning her out, please just report normally..

@laq1010 5 жыл бұрын

Même commentaire que pour Rachel Ruysch, quel montage d'images pénible et contre productif !

@ThePayola123 4 жыл бұрын

But I simply adore, Mademoiselle Virgin Lubricant. Mais Oui, elle etait tres chic.

@Гид_в_Париже_Ольга_Кукса Жыл бұрын

The music is terrible

@d.l.l.6578 2 жыл бұрын

Just keep blipping the pictures all over the place.

@findbridge1790 3 жыл бұрын

awful awful music -- too bad. thanks for the intro though to this interesting painter

@PeterPaul175 4 жыл бұрын

Why have the stupid, overly loud music?

@howtubeable 3 жыл бұрын

The video needs more examples of the artist's work and less preachy ideology. How did Vigee-Lebrun become such a successful artist, painting the rich and famous no less, if women were forbidden to be successful? She became successful like any male artist, thru talent and connections. No feminist narrative needed.

@natatron 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Annoying there is always some feminist jabber thrown in..

@martycrow 2 жыл бұрын

The video was highlighting what is on display at the National Gallery. To appreciate "art" for all the richness it offers, requires a little effort on the part of the interested viewer. Women artists were certainly a rarity at the time of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and as the video says, women were in practice excluded from full membership of Academies and Guilds. I am not sure why you find this fact so annoying.

@marisahelenaviscontiweingr9594 2 жыл бұрын

Você poderia falar mais devagar…

@sebastianmelmoth685 4 жыл бұрын

Ghastly music makes it unlistenable.

@photographedemode 4 жыл бұрын

Just stick to the facts instead of giving your own misinformed spin on things

@howtubeable 3 жыл бұрын

I agree. It's impossible to take Whitlum-Cooper seriously when as a professional curator she pretends to be a victim of male oppression.

@TheOnlyHatchet101 Жыл бұрын

You're so right, Artemisia Gentileschi did it 150 years earlier and went to Academy. This fake history is exactly that.

@andyh1219 4 жыл бұрын

Was! She was, not is!

@ajdc88 5 жыл бұрын

derivative. and even worse, boring.

@c0ronariu5 5 жыл бұрын

Harumph, or Who's been rubbing your lamp? Derivative, or satire? I think the irony just went swooshing over your head

@peterpuleo2904 5 жыл бұрын

Sadly, we continue to bemoan the social conditions from hundreds of years ago. Everything has to be viewed from the political prism of today.

@c0ronariu5 5 жыл бұрын

Peter Puleo well yes, we should absolutely condemn the negatives of past history. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Or would you dispute Herodotus?

@peterpuleo2904 5 жыл бұрын

I thought it was Santayana. My point is that not everything, including art, must be seen through the prism of politics. Modern commentators of many stripes simply MUST introduce politics and the "race, gender, class, etc." into every topic, including that of a female artist from 200 years ago who was a wonderful painter. It gets tedious and tiresome.

@brianjosephestanislao3511 5 жыл бұрын

Great point! It's so tiresome.

@howtubeable 3 жыл бұрын

On the bright side, this Marxist-feminist ideology is quickly going out of fashion. It's too dishonest and unrealistic.

@peterpuleo2904 3 жыл бұрын

@@howtubeable I hope you are right, Howard, but I have doubts. Time will tell.