Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun by Joseph Baillio

The first meeting, when the Countess sat for this portrait, was in 1776 in Paris, the same year she married Count Wincenty Potocki. The delicate brushwork, as well as attention to detail and light in the sitter’s dress, demonstrate the sophisticated style Vigée Le Brun had already mastered in her youth.Ĭountess Potocka encountered Vigée Le Brun twice in her lifetime. Madame Du Barry has her visual identity stored for us upon the canvas, and also digitally too.Vigée Le Brun painted this elegant portrait of Countess Urszula Potocka when the artist was twenty-one years old. The painting was commissioned for the Duc de Brissac, Louis Hercule Timoléon de Cossé-Brissac according to the artist’s ‘Souvenirs’ 1835-37.įurther information about the artist can be found by reading ‘Vigée Le Brun’ b y Joseph Baillio, Katharine Baetjer, Paul Lang. Madame Du Barry wore a peignoir for this particular sitting, a dressing gown. A past article about woven textural specialist Guiseppe Arcimboldo illustrates my point here: Spoken rather slowly to imagine my awe.Īrtistic painters enjoy certain textures. ‘Portrait of Madame Du Barry’ by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Oil on panel, 27 1/4 x 20 1/4 inches (69.2 x 51.4 cm)I decided to include ‘ Portrait of Madame Du Barry‘ for. In addition to actively seeking industry connections quality reigns supreme, dot com. Eventually Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun is rewarded for her hardworking technical merit through membership to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1783. Skillful art heritage assisted Élisabeth Vigée in successfully competing within aristocratically lucrative landscapes. Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun herself is daughter of French portraitist Louis Vigée and sister to playwright Étienne Vigée. His great-great uncle was Charles Le Brun –.

Élisabeth married influential art dealer Jean-Baptiste Pierre Le Brun in 1776, himself born into an impressively artistic family. The feathery handling of hair, elaborate white-cream fabrics and curious pose whilst looking to the mirror extols her professionalism.ĭid you notice that this painting is actually a self portrait of Vigée Le Brun producing a working portrait? ‘Self Portrait of Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun’, Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cmThe ‘ Self Portrait of Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun‘ shown above is delicate, forceful and gracefully timid of pose.

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun by Joseph Baillio