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| Comtesse Du Barry de Cérès |
Artist:Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris)
Date:1784
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:36 × 29 in. (91.4 × 73.7 cm)
Frame: 46 × 39 1/4 × 4 in. (116.8 × 99.7 × 10.2 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Toledo Museum of Art, Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey (1963.33)
The countess (1759–1834) is wearing rich complementary colors and folds a letter to which Vigée Le Brun has cleverly affixed her signature.
According to the painter, the sitter had "a charming and sweet face, though you could see something false in her eyes." Indeed, to divert public attention from her liaison with Calonne, controller general of finances, the countess spread rumors that it was Vigée Le Brun who was engaged in the affair.
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