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A court-painter to Marie Antoinette, Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun was rediscovered in the 1970s as part of the "hidden feminist heritage". This text uses her career to explore the position of "woman-artist" in the moral, philosophical, professional and medical debates about women in 18th-century France.

The Exceptional Woman Elisabeth VigeeLebrun and

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 24/10/1997
      ISBN13: 9780226752822, 978-0226752822
      ISBN10: 0226752828
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      Paintings and painting The arts: general topics Biography: general

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      Book Synopsis
      A court-painter to Marie Antoinette, Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun was rediscovered in the 1970s as part of the "hidden feminist heritage". This text uses her career to explore the position of "woman-artist" in the moral, philosophical, professional and medical debates about women in 18th-century France.

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