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In 1805, Vigée Le Brun returned to France for good, but she continued to travel and made some trips to Switzerland.
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The artist continued to paint portraits but also took up open-air landscape painting which was a new genre for her. In the lists of her works, she indicates that she had done over 200 pastel paintings of landscapes just for her own enjoyment.
We only have a few of them. Yet, they illustrate the romantic generation’s new feeling for nature.