Vigée Le Brun's Home Page | Index to Art Pages | Vigée Le Brun's Gallery ART PAGE 168 Allegory of Poetry - 1774 oval, 24 x 30 in, 80 x 65 cm Private collection signed and dated lower left Mlle Vigee / 1774, . Mdm Coindre - ? oil on canvas Marquise de Montesson - 1779 oil on canvas Unlocated Jeanne Beraud de La Haye, Marquise de Montesson lived in a big beautiful private mansion in Chaussee d Antin street where from 1785, she received her friends intellectuals, artists or comedians (she enjoyed theater and wrote a play). She finally married with Duke of Orleans, on Page 105 and Page 194, the father of Philippe duc de Chartres said Philippe-Egalite under the french Revolution. Mme de Montesson spent time in chateau du Raincy, near Paris, and she had sympathy for the liberal ideas. View additional images of Mme Montesson on Page 159, Page 51 and Page 194 . Vigée Le Brun's Home Page | Index to Art Pages | Vigée Le Brun's Gallery