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Date : 1789
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : (1954)
| Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglae Bontemps (1762-1848)
Item 21 on 23
French Painting
Painting (Gift of Jossie Woolworth Donahue)
Area related
France
Site related :
Vigée Le Brun
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When this portrait was painted in 1789, the sitter, daughter of Louis XV's premier valet de chambre, was the wife of the comte de la Châtre. She later married François Annail de Jaucourt which accounts for the traditional title of the painting as the marquise de Jaucourt. For daily wear and for portraits, Vigée le Brun favored muslin dresses in this style for what she saw as their timeless, classical simplicity.
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