Retrato de Marie-Louise-Adélaïde-Jacquette de Robien, vizcondesa de Mirabeau
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
1774
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun captured the youthful elegance of the Vicomtesse de Mirabeau in this charming 1774 portrait, painted when the artist was just a teenager herself. The subject cradles a guitar adorned with a delicate ribbon, her powdered hair and billowing white sleeves perfectly capturing the fashionable Rococo spirit of pre-revolutionary France. Vigée Le Brun would soon become the favorite painter of Marie Antoinette, but here we see her early mastery of soft, flattering light and engaging, direct gazes that made her portraits so irresistible.
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