Vigee-Le Brun Selected Readings

The Fountain of St. James Court or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman
By Sena Jeter Naslund
Reading Selections in the TMA Reference Library
Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Baillio, Joseph. Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. Fort Worth: Kimbell Art Museum, 1982.
[E15 V673Ba]
May, Gita. Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun: the odyssey of an artist in an age of revolution. New Haven
[Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2005. [E15 V673M]
Sheriff, Mary D. The exceptional woman: Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and the cultural politics of art.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. [E15 V673Sh]
Blum, André. Madame Vigée-Lebrun: peintre des grandes dames du XVIIIe siècle. Paris: H.
Piazza, [1919] [E15 V673B]
Shackelford, George T.M. A magic mirror: the portrait in France, 1700-1900. Houston, Tex.:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1986.
[EC H843 M986 1986]
Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun. New York, N.Y.: G. Braziller, 1989. [E15 V673S]
Madame Vigée-Le Brun. Paris: Goupil & c ie, Manzi, Joyant & c ie, succ., 1912. [E15 V673N]
18th Century France and Art
Halliday, Tony. Facing the public: portraiture in the aftermath of the French Revolution.
Manchester; New York : Manchester University Press, 2000.
[E15 H188F]
Kahng, Eik. Anne Vallayer-Coster, painter to the court of Marie-Antoinette. [Dallas, TX]: Dallas
Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. [E15 V179K]
Goodman, Dena. Becoming a woman in the age of letters. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
c2009.
[915 G653B]
Oppenheimer, Margaret A. The French portrait: revolution to restoration. Northampton,
Mass.: Smith College Museum of Art, 2005. [EC N871 S644 2005]