MASTERPIECES
IN COLOUR
EDITED BY —
T. LEMAN HARE

VIGÉE LE BRUN
1755-1842

PLATE I.—MARIE ANTOINETTE. Frontispiece

(At Versailles)

The first portrait that Vigée Le Brun painted, in her twenty-fourthyear (1779) of Marie Antoinette. Here is no hint of the tragedy thatwas to overwhelm the handsome young daughter of Austria; all was as yetbut gaiety and roses and sunshine and pleasant airs, and the glamourthat hovers about a throne. But there are signs of the imperioustemper of her house, combined with the levity and frivolity of mannerswhich were so early to make her unpopular.

Vigée Le Brun

BY HALDANE MACFALL

ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT
REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR

LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK
NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.
1907

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS