🖌️🎨Louise Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842)

 🖌️🎨Louise Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) and portraits of her daughter, Jeanne-Julie-Louise Le Brun (Nigris; 1780-1819). Both mother and daughter were famous French artists.














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