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Anne Charlotte of Lorraine, Mademoiselle de Brionne, as Diana
(c. 1775)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
34.0 × 26.4 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by Krystyna Campbell-Pretty and the Campbell-Pretty Family through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2017
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun was trained by her artist father Louis Vigée. After his death, the teenaged Vigée Le Brun supported her family by painting portraits for the aristocracy. Her exceptional skill at achieving a flattering likeness won her the attention in 1778 of Marie Antoinette herself, who became Vigée Le Brun’s most eminent patron. This portrait of Anne Charlotte de Lorraine Elbeuf (1755–86), presumably commissioned by the sitter’s mother, is one of the early works on which Vigée Le Brun built her reputation. This painting was acquired from the collection of the late Raine, Countess Spencer.
Artwork Details
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Portraits
Subjects (specific)
arrows costumes (character dress) crescents (motifs) Diana (Roman deity) hairstyles half figures nobles (aristocrats) women (female humans)