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| Marquise de Puységur |
Artist:Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris)
Date:1786
Medium:Oil on wood
Dimensions:41 1/2 × 29 1/4 in. (105.4 × 74.3 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Gift of Mrs. Fred J. Fisher (1951.004.015)
Using red and golden browns in a painting both pastoral and Neoclassical in inspiration, Vigée Le Brun presents the marquise (1766–1837) as a milkmaid. She wears a straw hat and a tightly cinched bodice over a chemise, with a wide skirt. She leans on an earthenware amphora beside a wellhead. Her powdered hair confers maturity beyond her twenty years.
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