French painter Louise Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun was a court portraitist to Marie Antoinette and ultimately transitioned from the Rococo to Neoclassicism with the changing political and aesthetic winds. Here we see Le Brun’s rendering of Lady Hamilton who was known for what would later be called performance art. A Mixed-Media painting.
Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante, after Louise Elisabeth Vigee Le BrunÉlisabeth Vigée Le Brun French (1755 - 1842) |
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French painter Louise Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun was a court portraitist to Marie Antoinette and ultimately transitioned from the Rococo to Neoclassicism with the changing political and aesthetic winds. Here we see Le Brun’s rendering of Lady Hamilton who was known for what would later be called performance art. A Mixed-Media painting. |
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