Mrs Kauffman & Madame Le Brun Publisher / Bard Graduate Center present and future to ask

present and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going

and John Henry Dearle

About Face is as stunning as it is important

and Neil Young

Mrs Kauffman & Madame Le Brun Publisher / Bard Graduate Center present and future to askFrom the acclaimed author of The King's Painter, a vivid life and times biography of two unjustly neglected women artists, Angelica Kauffman and Elisabeth Vige Le Brun. In the late autumn of 1789, two of Europe's most celebrated painters met in Rome. One, Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss born prodigy who had conquered the art scenes of London and Italy. The other, lisabeth Louise Vige Le Brun, a Parisienne portraitist and favourite of the ancien regime,