I wish they had shown more of her works. She painted over 600 portraits, and she did much more than just portraits. Her allegory paintings (something that women painters were usually not allowed to do.. she just did it) are wonderful. It was seeing her paintings at a show at the Metropolitan Museum in NY a few years ago that made me realize I had to recreate the gowns I was seeing. So far I've done the Duchess du Berry in Blue velvet , and I've done the black dress from her self portrait from 1790 for a close friend. I will do more. :)
I was so happy when I realised she’d written a book. I’m reading it right now. It’s so interesting to read a book from someone who has experienced French Court and knew Marie Antoinette personally. I love pre-revolution France.
As I recall, Sian Evans translated the full original into English with Le Brun's additional notes, pen portraits and so on. Not sure it is still in print. It was published in the late 80s, but worth hunting down a pre-loved copy.
I was introduced to Vigee Le Brun with her work of Theresa Countess Kinsky at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena CA. Fell in love with Vigee Le Brun after looking up her other works, leading up to her self portrait. Ahh what a talent. It's a bucket list item to visit her.
Dear National Gallery - I love these types of videos. Short and sweet yet very informative. I would love to see more of these type of videos. Thank you for posting this.
I saw an exhibit of her paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art a couple of years ago and she is an extremely accomplished painter. The Met has a number of Mary Cassatt paintings, also very accomplished.
The University of Arizona art museum, UAMA, has a beautiful LeBrun portrait: The Countess von Schonfeld with her Daughter, 1793. The tenderness and love that radiates from this painting is so powerful. Thank you for this wonderful vignette of LeBrun's life, truly a remarkable artist.
I knew nothing about the painter until I saw 2:44 this sweet lively girl in the National Gallery... it's love at first sight... now I am obsessed with the her works❤
I saw this picture in London last year. and I read about her in a book, But it's great to hear the explanation and see the picture again. Thanks for sharing! :)
What is the choppy video editing about? Why the yellow half frames repeated? Don’t you think the viewer can focus on something for more than 3 seconds? My sense is that this video treatment trivializes the presentation. This is a remarkable artist with considerable influence in the 18th century. Enjoyed knowing more about her.
love her paintings and this was an interesting talk, but the cinematography was a little schizophrenic, with too many split screens and zoom-ins. Very distracting
Beaucoup de grands Artistes-Peintres chez nous en France. Elisabeth Vigier Lebrun, Boucher, Poussin, Manet, Monet, Picasso,etc... il y en a tellement que l'on ne peut tous les citer.👌👀👍.
Another excellent video. Bravi. Dr Whitlam-Cooper is always brilliant (she also looks a lot like Emily Blunt, and, like Ms Blunt, she is lovely) - she is davvero simpatica (and erudite)!
Why are we looking at the same portrait over and over again. Now was the time to show a variety, even if it is only three or four more of her works or do we have to Google her name to see them. I was fascinated and disappointed at the same time in this presentation made even more disconcerting for me by the choice of background music. Well at least a new female artist name was made known to me. Thank you for that. Perhaps you were highlighting what is on display at the National Gallery.
감사합니다. 초상화를 처음 본 순간 느꼈던 저의 느낌과 동일하네요. 그녀가 입고 있는 옷은, 귀족이나 왕비의 것 보다 훨씬 값싼 것이지만, 이상하게도 그녀 자신의 초상화가 제일 예뻣습니다. 아마도 자신의 미적 심미안 에서, "예쁘다는 것" 은 , 마리 앙투아네트 왕비에게도 뻇길수 없던 것이 아니었을까 합니다.
The video needs more examples of the artist's work and less preachy ideology. How did Vigee-Lebrun become such a successful artist, painting the rich and famous no less, if women were forbidden to be successful? She became successful like any male artist, thru talent and connections. No feminist narrative needed.
The video was highlighting what is on display at the National Gallery. To appreciate "art" for all the richness it offers, requires a little effort on the part of the interested viewer. Women artists were certainly a rarity at the time of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and as the video says, women were in practice excluded from full membership of Academies and Guilds. I am not sure why you find this fact so annoying.
Peter Puleo well yes, we should absolutely condemn the negatives of past history. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Or would you dispute Herodotus?
I thought it was Santayana. My point is that not everything, including art, must be seen through the prism of politics. Modern commentators of many stripes simply MUST introduce politics and the "race, gender, class, etc." into every topic, including that of a female artist from 200 years ago who was a wonderful painter. It gets tedious and tiresome.
I wish they had shown more of her works. She painted over 600 portraits, and she did much more than just portraits. Her allegory paintings (something that women painters were usually not allowed to do.. she just did it) are wonderful.
It was seeing her paintings at a show at the Metropolitan Museum in NY a few years ago that made me realize I had to recreate the gowns I was seeing. So far I've done the Duchess du Berry in Blue velvet , and I've done the black dress from her self portrait from 1790 for a close friend.
I will do more. :)
Oh lovely. Do you have an instagram or facebook with pics?
Her daughter, Julie died
"something that women painters were usually not allowed to do" Nope. They were allowed to do them...
Vigee Le Brun has been my favorite artist for decades. I recommend her autobiography.
I was so happy when I realised she’d written a book. I’m reading it right now. It’s so interesting to read a book from someone who has experienced French Court and knew Marie Antoinette personally. I love pre-revolution France.
@@elisesimone8121 Exactly!
@@elisesimone8121 "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
As I recall, Sian Evans translated the full original into English with Le Brun's additional notes, pen portraits and so on. Not sure it is still in print. It was published in the late 80s, but worth hunting down a pre-loved copy.
One year elder to Mozart 🇫🇷
Glad to have been introduced to this talented woman. Gonna be looking at the rest of her work.
I was introduced to Vigee Le Brun with her work of Theresa Countess Kinsky at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena CA. Fell in love with Vigee Le Brun after looking up her other works, leading up to her self portrait. Ahh what a talent. It's a bucket list item to visit her.
Such a hero. Hollywood should make a movie about her!
Sergio C. Mata there is a good movie about her
@@RinaElsayed773 Really? Care to share the title?
Yes and a movie about Atemisia Gentileschi
Possibly without the woke/rainbow undertone
A miniseries!
Dear National Gallery - I love these types of videos. Short and sweet yet very informative. I would love to see more of these type of videos. Thank you for posting this.
I saw an exhibit of her paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art a couple of years ago and she is an extremely accomplished painter. The Met has a number of Mary Cassatt paintings, also very accomplished.
I saw the same show. it was mindblowing!
The University of Arizona art museum, UAMA, has a beautiful LeBrun portrait: The Countess von Schonfeld with her Daughter, 1793. The tenderness and love that radiates from this painting is so powerful. Thank you for this wonderful vignette of LeBrun's life, truly a remarkable artist.
I knew nothing about the painter until I saw 2:44 this sweet lively girl in the National Gallery... it's love at first sight... now I am obsessed with the her works❤
I saw this picture in London last year. and I read about her in a book,
But it's great to hear the explanation and see the picture again.
Thanks for sharing! :)
Perhaps you would enjoy her autobiography; very lively!
Very inspiring! Unbelievably lovely. Moser expressed the same evaluation of her over Michelangelo to William Blake.
wow thankyou this was a great video
Love her work she was so talented
What is the choppy video editing about? Why the yellow half frames repeated? Don’t you think the viewer can focus on something for more than 3 seconds? My sense is that this video treatment trivializes the presentation. This is a remarkable artist with considerable influence in the 18th century. Enjoyed knowing more about her.
love her paintings and this was an interesting talk, but the cinematography was a little schizophrenic, with too many split screens and zoom-ins. Very distracting
I don't know why documentaries feel they have to be edgy. The music is terrible too.
Agree, music is distracting.
she became famous at 20, meanwhile, I'm turning 20 in two months and living in my mom's attic while doing online art school... lol
Hey Mikei, you’re doing what you love, and that’s very cool. Keep going. Show us some of your art.
We all start somewhere….🎨🖼🖌😁
This is vary helpful, i am watching this for school, we are supposed to pick artist to write about-
Beaucoup de grands Artistes-Peintres chez nous en France.
Elisabeth Vigier Lebrun, Boucher, Poussin, Manet, Monet, Picasso,etc... il y en a tellement que l'on ne peut tous les citer.👌👀👍.
Picasso, plutot Espagnol, non ?
The elementary school that I went to was named after her.
Oh interesting! Where is that located, if you don’t mind sharing? If not I’ll google it.
wow beautiful paintings-talented artist
Another excellent video. Bravi. Dr Whitlam-Cooper is always brilliant (she also looks a lot like Emily Blunt, and, like Ms Blunt, she is lovely) - she is davvero simpatica (and erudite)!
Amazing, absolutely beautiful images.
Thanks
My favourite painter 😁
Same earings as those worn by Marie Antoinette in Vigée Le Brun's portrait of her with her children?
Why are we looking at the same portrait over and over again. Now was the time to show a variety, even if it is only three or four more of her works or do we have to Google her name to see them. I was fascinated and disappointed at the same time in this presentation made even more disconcerting for me by the choice of background music. Well at least a new female artist name was made known to me. Thank you for that. Perhaps you were highlighting what is on display at the National Gallery.
Yes, the video was highlighting what is on display at the National Gallery.
Rubbish camera technique. I subscribed hoping to learn something about art, but those random jumpcuts make the experience unenjoyable.
I'm afraid this new format of presenting the paintings was not for me, I'll look forward to more of the simple format presentations.
"I can go one better than Rubens". What an amusing video.
Did not like this at all, too much switching all over the place, annoying music drowning her out, please just report normally..
Maybe not let the intern edit the video.
Her self portrait in Kimbell museum Fort Worth USA doing eye contact w you from deep right to deep left movement in front! ))) it’s a super !!!!
Very nice lecture, but I'd rather see more work and hear less music.
Why this awful noisy sound track???!!! Really disturbing. Not passing. So sorry for that.
She's so pretty
Madame Curator, you look just like her!
감사합니다. 초상화를 처음 본 순간 느꼈던 저의 느낌과 동일하네요. 그녀가 입고 있는 옷은, 귀족이나 왕비의 것 보다 훨씬 값싼 것이지만, 이상하게도 그녀 자신의 초상화가 제일 예뻣습니다. 아마도 자신의 미적 심미안 에서, "예쁘다는 것" 은 , 마리 앙투아네트 왕비에게도 뻇길수 없던 것이 아니었을까 합니다.
The video needs more examples of the artist's work and less preachy ideology.
How did Vigee-Lebrun become such a successful artist, painting the rich and famous no less, if women were forbidden to be successful? She became successful like any male artist, thru talent and connections. No feminist narrative needed.
Thank you! Annoying there is always some feminist jabber thrown in..
The video was highlighting what is on display at the National Gallery. To appreciate "art" for all the richness it offers, requires a little effort on the part of the interested viewer. Women artists were certainly a rarity at the time of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and as the video says, women were in practice excluded from full membership of Academies and Guilds. I am not sure why you find this fact so annoying.
Même commentaire que pour Rachel Ruysch, quel montage d'images pénible et contre productif !
Why have the stupid, overly loud music?
awful awful music -- too bad. thanks for the intro though to this interesting painter
Ghastly music makes it unlistenable.
I see a resemblance between you and the artist.
A stunning artist.
The music is terrible
Just keep blipping the pictures all over the place.
The way this video is edited is very annoying. Why the half-empty screens, and the random jumping around? And why can't we see more of her art?
But I simply adore, Mademoiselle Virgin Lubricant. Mais Oui, elle etait tres chic.
Você poderia falar mais devagar…
Just stick to the facts instead of giving your own misinformed spin on things
I agree. It's impossible to take Whitlum-Cooper seriously when as a professional curator she pretends to be a victim of male oppression.
You're so right, Artemisia Gentileschi did it 150 years earlier and went to Academy. This fake history is exactly that.
Was! She was, not is!
Sadly, we continue to bemoan the social conditions from hundreds of years ago. Everything has to be viewed from the political prism of today.
Peter Puleo well yes, we should absolutely condemn the negatives of past history. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Or would you dispute Herodotus?
I thought it was Santayana. My point is that not everything, including art, must be seen through the prism of politics. Modern commentators of many stripes simply MUST introduce politics and the "race, gender, class, etc." into every topic, including that of a female artist from 200 years ago who was a wonderful painter. It gets tedious and tiresome.
Great point! It's so tiresome.
On the bright side, this Marxist-feminist ideology is quickly going out of fashion. It's too dishonest and unrealistic.
@@howtubeable I hope you are right, Howard, but I have doubts. Time will tell.
derivative. and even worse, boring.
Harumph, or Who's been rubbing your lamp? Derivative, or satire? I think the irony just went swooshing over your head