Anne-Antoinette-Cécile Clavel, better known by her stage name Madame Saint-Huberty or Saint-Huberti, was a celebrated French operatic soprano whose career extended from c. 1774 until 1790. After her retirement from the stage and the publicising of her second marriage, she was also known as the Comtesse d'Antraigues from around 1797. She and her husband were murdered in England.
Pastel portrait of Saint-Huberty by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, c. 1780
Anne Vallayer-Coster, Madame de Saint-Huberty in the role of Didon, 1785, (NWMA, Washington DC)
Armide is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck, set to a libretto by Philippe Quinault. Gluck's fifth production for the Parisian stage and the composer's own favourite among his works, it was first performed on 23 September 1777 by the Académie Royale de Musique in the second Salle du Palais-Royal in Paris.
Rinaldo in the Garden of Armida (1763), painting by Fragonard
Ubalde et le chevalier Danois by Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, (Exhibited at Paris, Salon, 1785, no. 3)