Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1787 - Julie Le Brun (1780–1819) Looking in a Mirror - fine art print

Original artwork description by The Metropolitan Museum of Art (© Copyright - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Vigée Le Brun represents her only child, Julie, in profile and full-face through inclusion of a mirror and impossible perspective. The resulting double image, which derives from earlier artists’ allegorical figures of Sight, plays on reality versus illusion in painting. Vigée Le Brun submitted three images of Julie, including this work, to the Salon of 1787; approximately two years earlier, she had represented Julie in a nearly identical composition. These portraits capture a new appreciation in late eighteenth-century Europe of childhood as a unique, impressionable moment of life distinct from adulthood.

Summary of the painting painted by the French artist named Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

This masterpiece Julie Le Brun (1780–1819) Looking in a Mirror was created by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun in 1787. The version of the piece of art was made with the size: 28 3/4 × 23 3/8 in (73 × 59,4 cm) and was painted on the medium oil on canvas. This artwork can be viewed in in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital collection in New York City, New York, United States of America. This classic art public domain masterpiece is being provided with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019. Creditline of the artwork: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019. The alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format and has an image ratio of 1 : 1.2, meaning that the length is 20% shorter than the width.

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