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Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun Works Online
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Original works by Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia Self-Portrait, 1800 Genius of Alexander I, 1814
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles The Vicomtesse de Vaudreuil, 1785
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna Princess Karoline of Liechtenstein as Iris, 1793 (Zoom) Princess Maria Josefa Hermenegilde von Esterhazy as Ariadne on Naxos, 1793 (Zoom)
Louvre Museum Database, Paris 7 paintings
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri Marie Gabrielle de Gramont, Duchesse de Caderousse, 1784 (Zoom)
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)  3 works online
The Royal Collection, London, UK
Château de Versailles, France Portrait of the queen Marie-Antoinette
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts - Provenance Research Project Bacchante, 1785
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Portrait of Madame du Barry
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  Portrait of Countess Maria Theresia Bucquoi, 1793
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France Portrait de la Baronne de Crussol, 1785
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida Julie Lebrun as Flora, 1799
Narodna Galerija (National Gallery), Ljubljana, Slovenia (in Slovenian)  Elizabetha Isabella Mniszech, 1797
National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia Portrait of Grand Duchess E.N. Menshikova with Daughter
National Museum in Warsaw, Poland (in Polish)  See the Flash presentation on the page: rollover + scroll thumbnails
National Museum of Art of Romania Portrait of A Woman
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. Portrait of Princess Belozersky, 1798 Portrait of Madame Thérèse Vestris, 1803 Portrait of a Boy, 1817
National Museums Liverpool, UK Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante (detail)
National Museums Liverpool, UK Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona Madame Victoire, 1791
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri The Artist's Brother, 1773
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) 
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Portrait of the Comte de Vaudreuil, 1784
Watford Museum, England The Artist at Work (Self Portrait)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch) 
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Google Art Project Marie-Antoinette de Lorraine-Habsbourg, Queen of France, and her children (Palace of Versailles, France)
Google Art Project Marie-Antoinette with the Rose (Palace of Versailles, France)
Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun at The Art Renewal Center
Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun in the Web Gallery of Art 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database 
Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun at CGFA 
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
Humanities Web 
MyStudios
Olga's Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW! Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Vigee Le Brun Master Painting List Extensive list of the artist's works. No images on this site, although there are many links to individual paintings at the "BatGuano" website, above.
Auburn University Liberal Arts Department
BatGuano Web Works Massive collection of Vigée-Lebrun's works online
The Age of Enlightenment in the Paintings of France's National Museums Marie-Antoinette of Austria, Queen of France
Women Artists from the Medieval Period to the Present
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
The Guardian Newspaper, UK Essay on Self Portrait in a Straw Hat, 1782
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
search inside
 The Exceptional Woman
search inside
 Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution
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