The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Hardbound. Cream cloth with gold lettering; black pictorial dj with white lettering; 353 pp. with 45 bw illustrations;. Sheriff shows how Vigee'Lebrun's images and memoirs undermined the assumptions about "woman" and the strictures imposed on women. Vigee-Lebrun was a favorite portraitist of Marie-Antoinette. More