The most fashionable portrait painter of Louis XVI’s France recalls her youth in Paris, her rise to fame and her sittings with Queen Marie Antoinette. When the Revolution came she fled, and her memoirs follow her years of exile in Italy, Vienna and Russia, where she painted the court of Catherine the Great.
A painter’s vivid memoir of the end of the ancien régime, in Lionel Strachey’s translation. Download the free EPUB.