Portrait de la baronne de Crussol

Vigée-LeBrun, Elisabeth Louise (1755-1842)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1785
Height:
112.0 cm  (44 1/8 in.)
Width:
85.0 cm  (33 7/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on panel

    Item location

  • Musée des Augustins
    [Museum inv. no.: RO 307]

Description

Baroness Crussol, wife of Henri-Charles-Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac, holding a score to Gluck's opera Echo et Narcisse, premiered in 1779, only six years before this portrait was made.

Musical works

Gluck, Christoph Willibald Ritter von -- Echo et Narcisselegible music notation
Paris: Des Lauriers, 1779.

Image URLs

image link 1
Musée des Augustins image

Bibliographic references

Blanc, Olivier. Portraits de femmes: artistes et modèles à l'époque de Marie-Antoinette (Paris: Didier Carpentier, 2006) 158-161, no. 295. ISBN 9782841674381. OCLC 71798947.

RIdIM record id

2385