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| The Duchesse de Polignac in a Straw Hat |
Artist:Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris)
Date:1782
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:36 5/16 × 28 7/8 in. (92.2 × 73.3 cm)
Frame: 50 3/16 × 36 13/16 × 4 3/4 in. (127.5 × 93.5 × 12 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Vigée Le Brun shows the duchess (1749–1793), a close friend of Marie Antoinette, bathed in pale golden light. She wears the straw hat and costume of an elegant courtier-shepherdess.
The queen and her circle had grown weary of the discomforts of the formal attire worn at Versailles. In the early 1780s, in private settings, they therefore abandoned their corsets and hoops for draped, loosely belted muslin chemise dresses, which were relaxed and natural.
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