Vigée-Lebrun, 1755-1842 : her life, works, and friendships : with a catalogue raisonné of the artist's pictures (1915)
Helm, W. H. (William Henry), 1860-1936, Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842 · Boston : Small, Maynard · leaf 162
e was almost rural in those days, at least as rural as Bellevueto-day ; and more restful still for the hard-working artist was Moulin-Joli,the delightful home, on an island in the Seine, of M. Watelet, a wealthyReceiver-General, who not only loved to surround himself with authorsand painters, but… … MOULIN JOLI 65 The life at Moulin-Joli in summer was rather like that of some large villaon the Thames above Richmond in our day. Ah, wrote MadameLebrun to the Princess Natalie in after years, how I should have lovedto stroll with you through those woods of Moulin-Joli! Here, indeed,was one of…
