|
Vigée Le Brun's Home Page | Index to Art Pages | Vigée Le Brun's Gallery |
COMPLETE BOOKS and BOOK LIST |
"The Memoirs of Madame Vigee LeBrun" published by George Braziller, Inc. (1903, 1989) 60 madison Ave NY, NY 10010 English translation of "Souvenirs" by Lionel Strachey Introduction by John Russell Library of Congress ISBN 0-8076-1221-9 This single volume version of Vigée Le Brun's autobiography is a captivating read. This book in its entirety is included at this website View the Internet Archive color version of this book.
Download a reading copy of Memoirs |
|
"Vigée Le Brun Masterpieces in Colour" By Haldane MacFall 1922 Illustrated with eight reproductions in colour London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, Ltd. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. This book in its entirety is included at this website |
|
Masters in Art A series of Illustrated Monographs Madame Vigee Le Brun Bates and Gould Company, Boston 1905 Illustrated with 10 reproductions in colour London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, Ltd. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. This Monograph in its entirety is included at this website |
 |
"Elisabeth Louise Vigee LeBrun" 1755 - 1842 Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth, Texas, 1982 Kimbell Exhibition Catalog June 5 - August 8, 1982 Library of Congress Card Number 82-81554, ISBN 0-912 804-06-8 This book in its entirety is included at this website. |
 | Memoirs of Countess Golovine: A Lady At The Court of Catherine II Translated from French by G.M.Fox-Davies David Nutt, 57-59 Long Acre London 1910 Reference Countess Golivina's portrait and story . This book in its entirety is included at this website.
|
 | "The Art of Elisabeth Louise Vigee LeBrun" Phd Thesis by Lucia Cardellini University of Padova Padova, Italy 2000 This version is in Italian. An english version is in the works. Lucia is one of the originators of this web site. This book in its entirety is included at this website. |
 | "The Art of Elisabeth Louise Vigee LeBrun" Phd Thesis by Stephanie Hauschild Germany 1998 |
 |
"The Memoirs of Madame Vigee LeBrun" published by Camden Press, Ltd, London. Indiana University 1989 English translation of "Souvenirs" by Sian Evans |
|
Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution by Gita May Yale University Press. New Haven and London 2005
|
|
The Sweetness of Life A biography of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun by Angelica Goodden published by Andre Deutsch Ltd 1997 106 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3LJ An excellent biography on the artist!
|
|
Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun A biography of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun by Genevieve Haroche-Bouzinac published by Champion Editions, Paris and Geneva 2011 Genevieve Haroche-Bouzinac is a professor at the University of Orleans and a specialist in 18th century history. Genevieve and has published many articles on Vigée Le Brun.
|
|
Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Souvenirs 1755-1842 by Genevieve Haroche-Bouzinac published by Champion Editions, Paris and Geneva 2008
|
 |
Portrait Of Lisette By Elisabeth Kyle published by Thomas Nelson and Sons New York, Toronto, Edinburgh 1963 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-9630 This is an interesting historical novel based on the life of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. It begins in 1768 with the death of Vigée Le Brun's father and ends on October 6, 1789 as she flees France with her daughter. This book offers a well written insight into French life during the period preceding the French Revolution. |
|
Mme. Vigée Le Brun By Ines De Kertanguy Ines 1994 Published by Perrin in French 348 pages. Found in a French bookshop ( FNAC ). |
|
Mme. Vigée Le Brun By Francois Pitt-Rivers 2001 Published by Gallimard. Paris |
|
Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun By Gerrit Walczak 2004 Published by Deutscher Kunstverlag Munchen Berlin |
|
"The Exceptional Woman" Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun and the Cultural Politics of Art by Mary D. Sheriff Professor of art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Published by Univ of Chicago Press (Chicago and London) 1996 There are a few runs of 20 pages that contain information on the artist. Contains very little insight into the artist but alot of psycho babble. It does have an excellent list of source material on Vigée Le Brun in the appendix and a beautiful cover. |
|
Helh, W.H. Vigee Lebrun, Her Life... London, c. 1910 Nolhac, Pierre De. Madame Vigee-Le Brun de la reine... Paris, c.1900 E. VIGéE-LE BRUN, Memorie di una ritrattista, introduzione di B. CRAVERI, Mursia 1990 L. NIKOLENKO, The Russian Portraits of Madame Vigée-Le Brun, in Gazette de Beaux-Arts Luglio-Agosto 1967, pp.91-120. The complete article is at this site. CONSTANS, Un portrait de Catherine Vassilievna Skavronskaia par Madame Vigée-Lebrun, in Revue du Louvre 4-5 1967, pp. 265272 D. SUTTON, Russian Francophiles of the Dix-huitième, in Apollo CI 1975, pp. 420-427 M. ROLAND MICHEL et C. BINDA, Un portrait de Madame Du Barry, in Revue de l'Art 46 1979, pp. 40-45 G. GREEN, Le tele di Penelope, le donne e la pittura attraverso i secoli, (The Obstacle Race, 1979), Milano, Bompiani, 1980 P. ROSENBERG, A Drawing by Madame Vigée-Le Brun, Burlington Magazine 123, December 1981, pp. 739-741 J. BAILLIO, Identification de quelques portraits d'anonymes de Vigée Le Brun aux Etat-Unis, in Gazette des Beaux-Arts (November 1980): 157-168 J. BAILLIO, Quelques peintures réattribuées à Vigée Le Brun, in Gazette des Beaux-Arts 119 (January 1982): 13-26 J. BAILLIO, Vigée Le Brun and the Classical Practice of Imitation, Papers in Art History from the Pennsylvania State University, IV, 1988 Frances Borzello, Seeing Ourselves, Women's Self-Portraitsv (View Book Cover), London, Thames Hudson, 1998, pp.139-171 H.T. DOUWES DEKKER, Gli autoritratti di Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842), in Antichità Viva 22, Luglio-Agosto 1983, pp. 31-35 W. CHADWICK, Women Art & Society (View Book Cover), London, Thames and Hudson, 1990, pp.147-164 W. SLATKIN, The Voices of Women Artists, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, 1993, pp.25-44
|
|
|