Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat
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Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat is a self-portrait by the French painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, painted after 1782, in oil on linen, measuring 97.8 by 70.5 centimetres. It has belonged to the collectio
Self portrait in a Straw Hat by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Lebrun
First version, 1782, private property, Switzerland
Portrait of the Duchess de Polignac, 1782 oil on canvas. Musée de l'Histoire de France (Versailles).
Yolande de Polastron
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Yolande de Polastron, Duchess of Polignac was the favourite of Marie Antoinette, whom she met when she was presented at the Palace of Versailles in 1775, the year after Marie Antoinette became the Que
Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat
…a replica of that first version, painted when she was back in Paris. (See Gallery below.) In the same period she also made a very similar portrait of Yolande de Polastron, the Duchess of Polignac, wearing a similar straw hat. (See Gallery below.) Self-portrait in a straw hat can be seen primarily as a study of the effect of light, in the spirit…
Portrait by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1782. (styled after Self-portrait in a Straw Hat)
Marie Antoinette was instantly "dazzled" by the duchess of Polignac
Portrait of the Comte de Vaudreuil by François-Hubert Drouais, 1758
A more formal portrait of the Duchesse de Polignac by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun