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Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

French portrait painter (1755–1842)
🗓️ 16 April 1755

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, also known as Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun or simply Madame Le Brun, was a French painter who mostly specialized in portrait painting, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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