The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art

by Mary D. Sheridd and Mary D. Sheriff

Book Overview

Elisabeth Vig e-Lebrun (1755-1842) was an enormously successful painter, a favorite portraitist of Marie-Antoinette, and one of the few women accepted into the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. In accounts of her role as an artist, she was simultaneously flattered as a charming woman and vilified as monstrously unfeminine.

In The Exceptional Woman, Mary D. Sheriff uses Vig e-Lebrun's career to explore the contradictory position...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226752828
• ISBN13: 9780226752822
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"