Marie Antoinette Gathering the Brushes of Madame Vigée Le Brun, 1784, Alexis-Joseph Pérignon, 1859

Marie antoinette gathering the brushes of madame vigée le brun, 1784. In 1784, a pregnant elisabeth vigée le brun arrived for a sitting at versailles. In her eagerness to please the queen marie-antoinette, she spilled her brushes on the floor. When she leaned down to pick them up, she was stopped by marie antoinette, who, as vigée le brun wrote, “insisted on gathering them all up herself. ”. Object Type: painting. Genre: history painting. Date: 1859. Place of creation: France. Dimensions: height: 135 cm (53.1 in) ; width: 99.7 cm (39.2 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Depicted People: Marie Antoinette, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. Collection: New Orleans Museum of Art. Marie Antoinette Gathering the Brushes of Madame Vigée Le Brun