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| Countess Anna Potocka |
Artist:Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris)
Date:1791
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:55 7/8 × 49 5/8 in. (142 × 126 cm)
Frame: 68 5/16 × 61 13/16 × 4 5/16 in. (173.5 × 157 × 11 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Private collection
Countess Potocka (1758–1814) had been widowed, divorced, and remarried by age thirty-three, and she would wed again in 1803. Vigée Le Brun doubtless painted her enterprising client comfortably seated indoors but introduced a fictional rock to support her. The imaginary landscape reveals a theater of cascades reminiscent of Tivoli, where the painter had recently created pastel drawings en plein air.
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