Minerva Teichert

Minerva Teichert
"Mary and Martha"

I love her long lean figures here. You can almost see the fashions of the era she comes from even in this biblical painting... or maybe it is my imagination.

Minerva Teichert

Minerva Teichert

"Esther"

I absolutely admire the way she interprets biblical stories in her paintings. I love her loose style and her almost muted color palates.

Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigee le Brun

Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigee le Brun (1755-1842)

Princess Eudocia Ivanovna Galitzine as Flora, 1799
Oil on canvas

To see this painting in person and to know the artist's history makes it much more impressive. The figure's skin is so luminescent! You almost expect that if you touch it, it will be supple. It makes me appreciate the true beauty and potential of a glaze painting. The painter is French and was forced to flee France when the French Revolution broke out. She had been a favorite of the Queen's. She spent many years in exile painting foreign nobility like the russian princess portrayed here. They loved her flattering french style... of course.