Tag: Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun

Marie Antoinette’s Most Famous Portrait Briefly Silenced her Critics

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Marie Antoinette a la rose

History has not been kind to Marie Antoinette. Forced to leave her native Austria at the age of 14 and become the wife of future King Louis XVI, she quickly fell under the gaze of a critical public eye. There she remained until her death by guillotine at the age…

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National Museum of Women in the Arts, Hidden Gem in Downtown DC

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Sheep by the Sea

In April, my daughter Rita and I took a trip to Washington DC. We’d received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. It was spring break, during her last and horribly trying year of public school, and we were itching to get out of the house. A day before we left,…

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