"The Fabulous Life of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun" Art History Film Review & Analysis

An overview of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun's inspiring life and career and a review and analysis of the excellent docudrama film made about her.
You can watch this discussion about the film and then on your own you watch "The Fabulous Life of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun," which is available in several other media outlets such as TH-cam, Amazon, etc.
The actual film itself is not included in this program because of copyrights.
"Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun:
At 15 she was painting the aristocracy, in her 20s she was the favoured painter of Marie-Antoinette, and by her 30s she was fleeing the French Revolution."
The National Gallery (London).
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (16 April 1755 - 30 March 1842), also known as Madame Le Brun, was a prominent French portrait painter of the late 18th century.
Her artistic style is generally considered part of the aftermath of Rococo with elements of an adopted Neoclassical style. Her subject matter and color palette can be classified as Rococo, but her style is aligned with the emergence of Neoclassicism. Vigée Le Brun created a name for herself in Ancien Régime society by serving as the portrait painter to Marie Antoinette. She enjoyed the patronage of European aristocrats, actors, and writers, and was elected to art academies in ten cities.
Vigée Le Brun created some 660 portraits and 200 landscapes. In addition to many works in private collections, her paintings are owned by major museums, such as the Louvre, Hermitage Museum, National Gallery in London, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and many other collections in continental Europe and the United States.
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