An Active Old Age

Soon after Waterloo and the 1815 Restoration Vigée Le Brun experienced a cruel personal loss. In early December 1819 she learned that her daughter, Julie Nigris, was ailing and hastened to her side at her Paris apartment on 39, rue de Sèvres. Mother and daughter had long had a difficult, tense relat...

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Published inElisabeth Vigée Le Brun p. 190
Main Author May, Gita
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Yale University Press 06.10.2005
Subjects
Age
Art genres and movements
Art history
Arts
Behavioral sciences
Biometrics
Biostatistics
Brothers
Daughters
Families
Family members
Health care industry
Health information
Health sciences
Human geography
Human physical characteristics
Human populations
Human societies
Husbands
Literary genres
Literature
Men
Metropolitan areas
Nieces
Performing arts
Persons
Poetry
Political change
Political geography
Political processes
Political revolutions
Political science
Politics
Population studies
Portraits
Siblings
Social institutions
Social sciences
Sociology
Theater
Towns
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Summary:Soon after Waterloo and the 1815 Restoration Vigée Le Brun experienced a cruel personal loss. In early December 1819 she learned that her daughter, Julie Nigris, was ailing and hastened to her side at her Paris apartment on 39, rue de Sèvres. Mother and daughter had long had a difficult, tense relationship, due principally to Julie’s headstrong ways, and especially to her ill-advised and ill-fated marriage to Nigris. But they had occasionally seen each other in Paris after Julie’s separation from her husband, although Julie stubbornly rejected her mother’s repeated offers to come and live with her. But all resentments
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