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Lebrun or Le Brun may refer to:
- Charles Le Brun (1619–1690), French painter.
- Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun (1729–1807), French lyric poet.
- Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance (1739–1824), French statesman.
- Ludwig August Lebrun (1752-90), composer and oboist
- Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755–1842), French painter.
- Napoleon LeBrun (1821–1901), American architect
- Pierre-Antoine Lebrun (1785–1873), French poet.
- Albert Lebrun (1879–1950), President of France.
Neoclassicism :: Periods and Movements
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Volume 21, number 2: Emerging Themes, Emerging Voices
Mills Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
Volume 21, number 2: Considering the Copy
Moss Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
Volume 21, number 2: Beyond English
LaFountain Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
Volume 21, number 2: Collapsing Boundaries
Bailly Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
Volume 21, number 2: Objects, Contexts, and the Space Between
Jordan Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
Volume 21, number 2: Copley's Cargo
Roberts Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
In 1765, John Singleton Copley sent his painting Henry Pelham (Boy with a Squirrel) from Boston to London in hopes of receiving feedback from the arbiters of academic aesthetics. Several months later, he received the welcome news that Sir Joshua Reynolds had called the painting "wonderfull." In virtually every scholarly narrative of early American art, Boy with a Squirrel derives its canonical significance from this famous transatlantic relay. But the most basic reality of that relay–the massive fact of the Atlantic Ocean standing between Copley and his interlocutors–has barely been registered in the scholarship.This essay interprets Boy with a Squirrel in terms of the difficulty and delicacy of its transatlantic transmission. I argue that Copley, as he attempted to create a painting that would have the necessary transitive qualities, drew from an array of familiar discourses of Atlantic exchange and transport. The painting's profile format evoked strategies of numismatic exchange. The precise representation of the flying squirrel tapped into well-established transatlantic natural history circuits. The spatial transformations of the composition echoed not only empiricist theories of sensory conveyance (especially the writings of George Berkeley), but also mirrored the workaday dynamics of the shipping and reassembly of transatlantic commodities. Copley, like many other colonial artists, worked in a global community governed by distance, difference, and delay. By attending to the vehicular context of Boy with a Squirrel, we can begin to understand his strategies for articulating–and navigating–that new global space.
Art Guild Lecture: Vigee-Lebrun - Lecture by Rhett Kincaid Butler about the famous French artist.
Artcyclopedia: Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun on the Internet - Links to works by Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
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CGFA: Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun - Images of artist's works.
Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun - Comprehensive collection of artist's works, links to other sites, biography and articles.
Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun - Collection of images of artist's paintings.
Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun - Artist's biography.
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Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun. - Artist's biography by Jim Lane.
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Louise-Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun - Olga's Gallery - Collection of works of the French artist with a biography and historical comments.
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Vigee-Lebrun, Élisabeth - Collection of images and artist's biography.
Women in Art: Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Le Brun - Artist's biography and a collection of images.
