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| Count Emmanuel Nikolayevich Tolstoy |
Artist:Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris)
Date:1823
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:36 3/8 × 28 1/2 in. (92.5 × 72.5 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Private collection
Twenty-seven years before painting Emmanuel Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1802–1825) in Paris, Vigée Le Brun had portrayed his mother, Countess Tolstaya, in St. Petersburg. Here, the pyramidal composition is carefully balanced and the color scheme is one on the artist’s favorites. The sitter emerges convincingly from the picture’s space as if to enter ours.
The Salon of 1824 signaled the advent of the Romantic era and the approaching end of Vigée Le Brun’s career.
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