Franny Moyle Mrs Kauffman & Madame Le Brun : The Entwined Lives of Two Great Multicolor

In the late autumn of 1789, two of Europes most celebrated painters met in Rome. One, Angelica Kauffman, was a Swissborn prodigy who had conquered the art scenes of London and Italy. The other, lisabeth Louise Vige Le Brun, a Parisienne portraitist and favourite of the ancien regime, had just fled revolutionary France under threat of violence and scandal. Both were feted in their time, both were trailblazers in a maledominated world visionaries who helped define eighteenthcentury art and feminism before the term existed. This dual biography, framed within a thrilling story, restores these two extraordinary but unjustly overlooked figures to their rightful place in history. Set against a backdrop of revolution, empire and Enlightenment, it traces the dramatic lives and remarkable careers of Vige Le Brun and Kauffman artists who not only achieved unparalleled success and influence, but did so while pushing the boundaries of what women could be, both on canvas and in society. With vivid storytelling, one of the most gifted living writers of artistic biography, Franny Moyle, reclaims their legacies. She examines how each artist navigated fame, scandal and exile explores the relationships between them and their peers and considers how they were caught up in the huge cultural crosscurrents that were reshaping Europe. Through their work and their lives, they spoke boldly to the roles of women in public life, highlighted the prejudices and abuses suffered by their sex, reimagined... Franny Moyle Mrs Kauffman & Madame Le Brun : The Entwined Lives of Two Great