The Project Gutenberg e-Book of Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun; Translated by Lionel Strachey

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Author

Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842

Title

The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun

Credits

Produced by Adam Buchbinder and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)

Language

English

LoC Class

ND: Fine Arts: Painting

Subject

Portrait painting, French -- 18th century

Category

Text

eBook-No.

31934

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31934

Release Date

April 10, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun — Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
2. 2.PREFATORY NOTE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.APPENDIX
5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
6. 6.CHAPTER I Youth
7. 7.CHAPTER II Up the Ladder of Fame
8. 8.CHAPTER III Work and Pleasure
9. 9.CHAPTER IV Exile
10. 10.CHAPTER V Neapolitan Days
11. 11.CHAPTER VI Turin and Vienna
12. 12.CHAPTER VII Saint Petersburg
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII Life in Russia
14. 14.CHAPTER IX Catherine II.
15. 15.CHAPTER X The Emperor Paul
16. 16.CHAPTER XI Family Affairs
17. 17.CHAPTER XII Moscow
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII Good-by to Russia
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV Homeward Bound
20. 20.CHAPTER XV Old Friends and New
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI Unmerry England
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII Persons and Places in Britain
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII Bonapartes and Bourbons
24. 24.APPENDIX List of Mme. Vigée Lebrun's Paintings — FROM 1768 TO 1772 — 1773 — 1774 — 1775 — 1776 — 1777 — 1778 — 1779 — 1780 — 1781 — 1782 — 1783 — 1784 — 1785 — 1786 — 1787 — 1788 — 1789 — DONE AT ROME — VARIOUS LANDSCAPES, OILS AND CRAYONS DONE AT NAPLES — DONE AT TURIN AND OTHER PLACES — DONE AT VENICE — DONE AT VIENNA — PASTELS DONE AT VIENNA — DONE IN RUSSIA — DONE AT BERLIN — DONE AT DRESDEN — DONE IN ENGLAND — DONE AT PARIS AFTER RETURNING — SUNDRY PICTURES — SUNDRY PORTRAITS
25. 25.INDEX

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