Louveciennes landscapes: Before the war

Louveciennes landscapes: Before the war

When the prolific portraitist in pastels Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun retired to live near Paris, she chose a small hamlet to the west of the city, between the palace at Versailles and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Louveciennes. She died there in 1842, and is buried in the graveyard not far from her house. Twenty-seven years later it became the focus for a group of friends, who went on to become the core of the French Impressionists. For the next few…