Front matter
Reading edition
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-fourth year (1779) of Marie Antoinette. Here is no hint of the tragedy that was to overwhelm the handsome young daughter of Austria; all was as yet but gaiety and roses and sunshine and pleasant airs, and the glamour that hovers about a throne. But there are signs of the imperious temper of her house, combined with the levity and frivolity of manners which were so early to make her unpopular.
Vigée Le Brun
BY HALDANE MACFALL
ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR
