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TitleSelf-Portrait

Creator nameVigée-LeBrun, Elisabeth Louise

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1800

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationHermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/01.+paintings/38134

Accession numberГЭ-7586

SubjectsWomen--France--History--18th centurySelf-portraits, FrenchWomen artistsDress, Neoclassical

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The Age of Undress: Art, Fashion, and the Classical Ideal in the 1790s

In the spring of 1793, a strange fad swept London: women began to wear belly pads under their dresses...

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Amelia Rauser

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.99-123

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00338.7

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Chapter subject tags:Dress, NeoclassicalBury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady, 1775-1861Engraving--TechniqueEngland--Civilization--Classical influences

The Painting Technique of Anne Vallayer-Coster: Searching for the Origins of Style

Claire Barry

Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette

This investigation hopes to shed light on some of the origins and aspects of Anne Vallayer-Coster’s painting technique. In spite of her phenomenal success in a long and prolific career that survived the French Revolution...

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Claire Barry

PublisherDallas Museum of Art

Related print edition pages: pp.95-113

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Chapter subject tags:Painting, French--18th centuryVallayer-Coster, Anne, 1744-1818Women artists--France--18th centuryPainting--Technique--France--History--18th centuryStill-life painting, French--18th centuryPainting, French--Dutch influences

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