Vigée Le Brun

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Vigée Le Brun, by Haldane MacFallThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: Vigée Le BrunAuthor: Haldane MacFallRelease Date: October 22, 2009 [EBook #30314]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VIGÉE LE BRUN ***Produced by Al HainesCover artMASTERPIECESIN COLOUREDITED BY —T. LEMAN HAREVIGÉE LE BRUN1755-1842PLATE I.—MARIE ANTOINETTE. Frontispiece(At Versailles)The first portrait that Vigée Le Brun painted, in her twenty-fourth year (1779) of Marie Antoinette. Here is no hint ofthe tragedy that was to overwhelm the handsome young daughter of Austria; all was as yet but gaiety and roses andsunshine and pleasant airs, and the glamour that hovers about a throne. But there are signs of the imperious temper ofher house, combined with the levity and frivolity of manners which were so early to make her unpopular.Plate I.Vigée Le BrunBY HALDANE MACFALLILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHTREPRODUCTIONS IN COLOURTitle page artLONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACKNEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.1907CONTENTSI. The BeginningsII. The Wonderful ChildIII. Marriage and MotherhoodIV. Marie AntoinetteV. Sweet ExileVI. The EndLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSPlate Marie AntoinetteI. Frontispiece At VersaillesMadame ...