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Evaluating an Article
I chose to evaluate the page for Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun because she is my favorite portraitist and I know a substantial amount about her and her work with Marie Antoinette.

Lead
I believe the first sentence of the lead summarizes Vigee-Lebrun well, but the latter part of the lead I found a bit too detailed. For example, I think the sentences evaluating whether or not her artistic style is more rococo or neoclassical could be discussed in a different section under a separate heading titled, "Style," or "School of Art." A discussion of her style isn't included at all in the content section and is solely noted in the lead. Furthermore, putting her role as Marie Antoinette's portraitist later in the same paragraph as her artistic style I believe is also a mistake because those two pieces of information are not relevant to one another, and it hides her connection to Marie Antoinette. I believe that should have been placed as a separate paragraph or the second sentence of the lead because it is, after all, Vigee-Lebrun's main claim to fame.

Content, Tone, Organization
The content itself of the article is straightforward and organized well. However, I felt there needed to be more discussion of the impact Vigée-Lebrun had on French society, especially towards the French monarchy, yet it is only one subsection of the article. I personally found missing was the discussion on some of her more famous paintings and the immense scandal they caused. I also found a mistake in that the author(s) of the article did not describe which painting was a reaction to the La Reine en gaulle portrait at all, and the article instead states that a painting completed several years later was used to diffuse the situation caused by the prior mentioned portrait.

The tone does not appear to be biased one way or another, partially because there is not much information on her life as much as her art, which itself could be viewed as a bias.

Talk Page and Images
This article is rated a c-class article and is involved in multiple projects. There is some talk that has been discussed on the page in the last few years, but as far as I can tell none of the contributors' suggestions have been actually put into the article and instead remain as suggestions. I don't believe there has been any talk on the page since 2017.

While one user on the talk page suggested that there are too many images in the article, I believe it is formatted in a visually appealing manner and since it is at the bottom of the page it isn't a distraction from the article's content.

Overall
Overall, it isn't a terrible article but I understand why it only has a c-class rating. I am by no means an expert on Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, but even I just from memory realized there were some important things missing from her page. I also noticed a few grammar mistakes: "In the album Nobody's Daughter is featured the cropped portrait of Marie Antoinette." That sentence is not grammatically correct and needs to be changed.

I am tempted to go through and make some edits on this article later.

Berezki (talk) 18:44, 29 January 2020 (UTC)