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| The Marquise de Pezay and the Marquise de Rougé with Her Two Sons |
Artist:Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris)
Date:1787
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:48 9/16 × 61 3/8 in. (123.3 × 155.9 cm)
Frame: 70 × 80 × 7 1/2 in. (177.8 × 203.2 × 19.1 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of the Bay Foundation in memory of Josephine Bay Paul and Ambassador Charles Ulrick Bay (1964.11.1)
This group portrait and conversation piece is unusual in the oeuvre of Vigée Le Brun. It was commissioned by the marquise de Rougé, seated at the center, and exalts the values of friendship and family. The painter, at the pinnacle of her art, renders the sitters’ gentle faces and gleaming apparel with a virtuosic command of her medium.
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