Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun was powerful and extremely talented artist. Vigee-Lebrun was born April 16th, 1755 in Paris. Her father was a successful portrait painter so she was exposed to art at a very early age. It wasn’t until she was eleven that she really started to study and practice art. When Elizabeth was thirteen her father suddenly died. To help bring money into her house Elizabeth began to do portraits. Vigee-Lebrun became very popular almost immediately after starting her career. She was so popular that at age fifteen she was the head income in her house. When Vigee-Lebrun’s mother remarried she went through a dark time in her life. The man her mother had remarried took advantage of her money and made the family live with just the bare necessities. Elizabeth was urged by friends to stop giving her money to her step father but the thought of her mother suffering if she was to stop was too much for her to bare so she continued to give her money to him. At nineteen Elizabeth was accepted into the painter’s guild at the Academy of St. Luke. There …show more content…
The portrait can be found at the Louver in Paris, France. Vigee-Lebrun’s self-portrait with daughter really fits into the 18th century/ Rococo era because of how dramatic yet elegant it is. The age of the Rococo was a time of curvy lines and soft colors. Rococo style painting include paintings that displayed love, youth, and nature. Rococo is more intimate than Baroque. The portrait really shows the love between Julie and Elizabeth. the love can be seen it by the way Julie is painted nuzzled to her mother, by the way her right eye is halfway buried into Elizabeth’s neck, and the way Elizabeth is holding Julie in her arms. Viewers today can look at this painting and can see the love Vigee-Lebrun had for her daughter, and the talent that she possessed. The portrait is media is oil on