EP 55: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun)

The life of Marie Antoinette has been well documented. However the loveliest of ways and the most enduring image of the fated queen was in the paintings of Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun. Vigee Le Brun began to paint as a child and by the age of 15 she already finished her first major painting. Her portraits got the attention of all of Paris and the court at Versailles. Once the Count de Provence, future Louis XVIII, saw her paintings he commissioned her to paint a portrait of him. H...