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The Duchess of Caderousse
(Louise Vigée Le Brun)

Description

Among the gallery of portraits sold from New York was one of the finest examples of the work of Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), the favorite portrait painter of Queen Marie-Antoinette. This shows the Duchess of Caderousse, posed simply in the costume of a countrywoman, with her hair unpowdered – after the first sitting when she went straight to the opera as she had posed, with her hair loose and natural, she inspired a revolution in ladies’ fashions.
Acquired by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri.

Type
Oil on panel
Exhibited

Stair Sainty Matthiesen & Matthiesen Gallery, ’50 paintings’, 1993

Where is It?
Acquired by The Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, USA
Historical Period
Neoclassicism - 1780-1820
Subject
Portrait
School
French
Price band
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