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Madame Grand (Noël Catherine Verlée, 1761–1835)  1783

by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Vigée Le Brun was the most important woman artist of her time. She was a favorite of Marie Antoinette, through whose good offices she was admitted in 1783 to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture as one of only four women members. To the Salon of that year, her public debut, she sent three history paintings and at least ten portraits, of which this was one. Madam...
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Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art