![]() ![]() Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognizing you when you return to our website and helping us understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful. This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. We are not responsible for republished content from this blog on other blogs or websites without our permission. You can turn off the use of cookies at any time by changing your specific browser settings. This website does not share personal information with third-parties nor do we store any information about your visit to this blog other than to analyze and optimize your content and reading experience through the use of cookies. In her memoirs, she reveals her fascination with drawing: Madame Lebrun’s love of art was her constant companion through the best of times and the worst of times. She stayed in Paris until her death on 30 March 1842 when her body was taken back to Louveciennes and buried in a cemetery near her old home. Less than a year passed and her brother, Etienne, died. Images of a happy girl that had been such a delight to paint, haunted Madame Lebrun. The once pretty features of Julie were twisted by physical pain and she died shortly after. ![]() Julie Le Brun by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1789 ![]() Rushing to be by her side, all resentments forgotten, it was sadly too late. Soon after Waterloo, her daughter Julie was taken seriously ill. In 1813, she learned that her former husband Jean-Baptiste LeBrun had died. She painted several prominent British figures including the poet Lord Byron. However, her artistic talent was much in demand elsewhere in Europe. She broke off relations with her daughter and eventually resettled in Paris in 1805 during the reign of Napoleon I.Īs might be expected of the former portraitist to Marie Antoinette, she was not well received in France. It was in St Petersburg that her daughter Julie married a Russian nobleman-Gaetan Bernard Nigris-much to her mother’s dismay. Her husband and brother were briefly imprisoned, and following the execution of Marie Antoinette, her husband sued for divorce to save his life.Īfter traveling through several European countries and finding a warm reception among the foreign nobility who knew of her talent and social reputation, Madame Lebrun settled in Russia. Marie Antoinette by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1778 RevolutionĪs revolution gripped France and fearing she would be condemned for her close association with the monarchy and nobility, Madam Lebrun left the country with her daughter. And so it was for Madame Lebrun, who could not devote enough time to her daughter-something that would come back to haunt her in later life. Self-portrait with her daughter Julie, 1786 A pretty, happy little girl, whom her mother delighted in painting and sketching. I shall not try to describe the joy I experienced upon hearing the first cries of my child. ![]()
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