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| Comtesse de Ségur |
Artist:Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris)
Date:1785
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:36 1/4 × 28 3/4 in. (92 × 73 cm)
Frame: 48 7/16 × 40 13/16 × 3 15/16 in. (123 × 103.7 × 10 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon (MV 5962)
The countess (1756–1828) shared in the work of her husband, a diplomat, historian, and supporter of the American War of Independence. With her lips parted in a smile, she here abandons the mask of impassivity traditionally embraced by courtiers.
This luminous, subtly painted image is in the new style Vigée Le Brun adopted after she saw Peter Paul Rubens’s Presumed Portrait of Susanne Lunden.
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