Was Vigée Le Brun's work seen as too sentimental?
Some may have perceived my emphasis on sentiment and emotional expression as excessive. However, I believed that true portraiture required more than just a faithful rendering of features; it needed to capture the soul. The emotions and affections that I sought to portray were, in my view, essential to understanding the human being before me. Art, for me, was a means to connect and to express the subtle nuances of feeling that define us.
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