The Fabulous Life Of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Portraitist Of Marie-Antoinette Episode Rating Graph

Painter to the courts of Europe and friend of Marie-Antoinette, the life of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun is captured here with excerpts from her memoires and recreations of the tumultuous events of her time. Her early life was spent in France, until her exile at the time of the French Revolution.

In part 2, we continue the story of one of the most acclaimed artists of her time with the dramatic events of Elisabeth's life after her exile from France, including her long sojourn in Catherine The Great's Russia, and her eventual, inevitable, return to France, now under the rule of Napoleon.