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The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art (Updated Edition) by Mary D. Sheriff Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1997 ISBN-10: 0-226-75282-8 / 0226752828 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75282-2 / 9780226752822 Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun (1755-1842) was an enormously successful painter, a favorite portraitist of Marie-Antoinette, and one of the few women accepted into the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. In her role as an artist, she was simultaneously flattered as a charming woman and vilified as mons |