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ART PAGE 124

Baroness Crussol Florensac - 1785
oil on wood, 112.5 x 82.5 cm
Musée de Augustins, Toulousse
The Baronne Henri Charles Emmanuel de Crussol Florensac, née Bonne Marie Joséphine Gabrielle Bernard de Boulainvillers. Married to Charles Emmanuel de Crussol Florensac whom Mme Vigée Le Brun painted in 1787 (Art page 2) . He was one of the King Louis XVI's Generals. The Baroness holds an opera score by Gluck. (Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) was the prefered composer of the Queen Marie Antoniette.) This portrait was displayed in the 2015 Paris Exhibition.
Mme de Beaumont - 1788
oil on canvas
Private collection, Paris.
Pauline de Beaumont, nee Montmorin (1768-1803). Vigee Le Brun also painted this sitter and her mother in 1776. Those paintings are unlocated. Wife of Mister de Montmorin, former minister of Louis XVI. She escaped the storms from the Revolution.

Woman with organdy cap - ?
oil on canvas
Cognaq-Jay Museum, Paris
View the portrait in the museum.

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