Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, “Self-Portrait” (1790), oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 31 7/8 inches, Gallerie degli Uffizi, Corridoio Vasariano, Florence (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) ...

In her new book, Twelve Paintings, writer Tal Sterngast explores Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, which is known for an exceptional collection of European paintings. She lands on twelve paintings from the ...

We knew it all along: eventually we’d be hearing from Madame Vigée Lebrun. There were years, of course, when no one spoke of her, when no one thought to pull her paintings out of the storage racks, to ...

I misread the title of this new account of the life and art of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) as “Darling” and thus, momentarily, feared it would perpetuate the caricature of the French ...

Products are independently selected by our editors. We may earn an affiliate commission from links. Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was a pretty tough chick. This gifted portraitist, born in 1755, ...

There’s no way that the men who saw these two nudes did not, in their little Homo erectus brains, imagine that they might just be getting an undressed glimpse of the artist who painted them. Women ...

Lucky for the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa – this summer, it’s presenting works by an artist whose life and art are equally interesting. A promoter’s dream, in other words. About the only ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave., at 82nd Street, 212-535-7710 or metmuseum.org. Through May 15. Schedule: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday ...

Vigée Le Brun became a famous portraitist while still in her twenties, and was a favorite of Marie-Antoinette. May’s biography seeks to rescue her from critics who have dismissed her as an operator ...