Alpine landscape
A highly successful portraitist at the court of Marie Antoinette, Vigée Le Brun fled France in the wake of the Revolution. She would spend over a decade as an emigrée, travelling throughout Europe. During the years she spent abroad, she took up landscape painting in pastel. Unusually for the time, she worked en plein air, often hiking distances for the view she wanted. This was without precedent. Women artists in the 18th century were typically confined to portraiture and still-life; Vigée Le Brun was the first female landscapist of the period and certainly the only one who travelled throughout Europe working outdoors, directly from nature.
Artwork Details
- Title: Alpine landscape
- Artist: Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris)
- Date: ca. 1807–08
- Medium: Pastel on paper
- Dimensions: Sheet: 11 13/16 × 8 1/4 in. (30 × 21 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Purchase, Leon D. and Debra R. Black Gift, 2025
- Object Number: 2025.708
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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