The Painter of Women
Victor Manta
Vigée-Lebrun.
She was for sure one of the most successful of all women artists,
particularly noted for her portraits of women. Vigée-Lebrun was one of the
most technically fluent portraitists of her era, and her pictures are
notable for the freshness, charm, and sensitivity of their presentation.
A homage to the artist and related stamps can be found on the new page:
http://www.values.ch/Countries/France/Vigee-Lebrun/vigee-lebrun.htm
Victor Manta
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Ann Mette Heindorff
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> She was a French painter, and her full name was: Marie-Louise-Élisabeth
> Vigée-Lebrun.
>
> She was for sure one of the most successful of all women artists,
> particularly noted for her portraits of women. Vigée-Lebrun was one of the
> most technically fluent portraitists of her era, and her pictures are
> notable for the freshness, charm, and sensitivity of their presentation.
>
> A homage to the artist and related stamps can be found on the new page:
> http://www.values.ch/Countries/France/Vigee-Lebrun/vigee-lebrun.htm
A nice page, and beautiful new French art stamps.
But I do not see what the Rubens-painting has to do
there, when there are so many other Vigée-Lebrun
paintings world wide that could show her artistic
development better than by a free interpretation
-- or shall we call it "inspiration" -- of a Rubens-
painting.
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Ann Mette Heindorff
DFF # 101155. ATA # 53062-6. CSSG # 477
http://stamptravel.dht.dk
Victor Manta
> Victor Manta <ma...@values.ch> wrote
> > She was a French painter, and her full name was: Marie-Louise-Élisabeth
> > Vigée-Lebrun.
> >
> > She was for sure one of the most successful of all women artists,
> > particularly noted for her portraits of women. Vigée-Lebrun was one of
the
> > most technically fluent portraitists of her era, and her pictures are
> > notable for the freshness, charm, and sensitivity of their presentation.
> >
> > A homage to the artist and related stamps can be found on the new page:
> > http://www.values.ch/Countries/France/Vigee-Lebrun/vigee-lebrun.htm
> A nice page, and beautiful new French art stamps.
> But I do not see what the Rubens-painting has to do
> there, when there are so many other Vigée-Lebrun
> paintings world wide that could show her artistic
> development better than by a free interpretation
> -- or shall we call it "inspiration" -- of a Rubens-
> painting.
> --
> Ann Mette Heindorff
I'm glad that a participant liked the page, thanks.
To answer the "critiques":
- The number of stamps dedicated to EVL is of about 17 only. From these I'm
missing (or I cannot find them in my collection, which is the same) only two
significant ones: France, 1953, and Belgium, 1944 (good scans are
welcomed!). All others are from Jordan, Dubai, Paraguay, etc., i.e. not very
clean, philatelically speaking. I've put one sheet from Gambia, but even
this one without much of pleasure. Should I have put all of them, like I
have done it earlier, and when I was (correctly) criticized for doing that?
- There is a fundamental reason why I have shown both Straw Hat's, of EVL's
and Rubens'. At first view it is because EVL's painting is used on the
French cancel, and because EVL "maliciously corrected" the wrong name of
Rubens' wonderful work. The real reason why I have put the accent on the
comparison (without having spoken too much about it, purposely) is because
EVL displays not just a nice model, but a nice, highly talented and
successful woman (herself), working (see the easel) in a domain that at that
time was rather reserved to men.
I just wonder which women in the world will still combat my reason for
putting both paintings on the mentioned page :-)
Victor Manta
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Pierre Courtiade
> - The number of stamps dedicated to EVL is of about 17 only. From
> these I'm missing (or I cannot find them in my collection, which is
> the same) only two significant ones: France, 1953, and Belgium, 1944
> (good scans are welcomed!)..............
Victor, I just sent you a scan of the French stamp.
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Best regards,
Pierre Courtiade
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Victor Manta
>
> > - The number of stamps dedicated to EVL is of about 17 only. From
> > these I'm missing (or I cannot find them in my collection, which is
> > the same) only two significant ones: France, 1953, and Belgium, 1944
> > (good scans are welcomed!)..............
>
> Victor, I just sent you a scan of the French stamp.
>
Thanks a lot, Pierre. Eventually take a look at the page:
http://www.values.ch/Countries/France/Vigee-Lebrun/vigee-lebrun.htm
and then tell me if you still recognize your scan. :-)
Best wishes,
Victor Manta
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Pierre Courtiade
> Thanks a lot, Pierre. Eventually take a look at the page:
>
> http://www.values.ch/Countries/France/Vigee-Lebrun/vigee-lebrun.htm
>
> and then tell me if you still recognize your scan. :-)
>
Hi Victor,
I am sorry to confess that I did not noticed any difference ?
Wishing to copy your image to compare to mine, I saw that you are not
allowing access to it.
Of course you may authorise to copy it ;-))
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Victor Manta
> Victor Manta wrote :
>
> > Thanks a lot, Pierre. Eventually take a look at the page:
> >
> > http://www.values.ch/Countries/France/Vigee-Lebrun/vigee-lebrun.htm
> >
> > and then tell me if you still recognize your scan. :-)
> >
> Hi Victor,
> I am sorry to confess that I did not noticed any difference ?
> Wishing to copy your image to compare to mine, I saw that you are not
> allowing access to it.
> Of course you may authorise to copy it ;-))
>
> Pierre Courtiade
The processed image departed to France five minutes ago, by e-mail. Thanks
again for the scan.
Apparently, you see the image a bit differently than I do, possible because
of differences in monitors and screen resolutions.
Best wishes,
Victor Manta