Esprit Vigée is an immersive virtual exhibition in 3 dimensions, through a virtual headset, on the painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. A fabulous painter from the end of the 18th century, she is the last great French and European portrait painter.
The digital exhibition brings together 8 of these works: “La Paix ramenant l’Abondance”, “Autoportrait au chapeau de paille”, “Tendresse Maternelle”, “Portrait de Mohammed Dervish Khan”, “Portrait de Marie-Antoinette dit «à la Rose»”, “Martine-Gabrielle-Yolande de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac”, “Portrait d’une femme” and “Portrait de Lady Hamilton”.
These different portraits retrace the life of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, from 1780 to 1815, and her change of style from Rococo to Neoclassism, while keeping this personal touch in her paintings: the smile, an element of which Élisabeth is one of the pioneers.