PART 3 | French Revolution: Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, & Marie Tussaud

Join Art Muse Katherine Zoraster tomorrow to consider three women artists of the French Revolution. Le Brun, Labille-Guiard, and Tussaud memorialized iconic figures of the French Revolution in their paintings and sculpture. In their work, each artist portrayed members of the monarchy and the revolutionaries. As a court painter for Louis XVIth Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun is best-known for her sympathetic images of Marie Antoinette. Adélaïde Labille-Guiard also depicted Marie Antoinette in addition to Maximilien Robespierre, the leader of the Revolution. Anna Maria Grosholtz, better known as Madame Tussaud, documented all of the figures of the Revolution. By celebrating key figures of the Revolution, these three artists survived, despite their ties to the monarchy.
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