Vigée Le Brun's Home Page | Index to Art Pages | Vigée Le Brun's Gallery ART PAGE 44 Head of a Young Woman (Lady Hamilton) - 1790 black chalk on wood, 10-1/2 x 14 inches A note in French on the reverse side states the Mme. Le Brun made this drawing on a door in the summer house (Casino) of Sir William Hamilton, British minister to Naples, by whose order it was preserved. "I sketched two small heads in charcoal upon one of these doors" - Vigee Le Brun. The sketch is believed to be of Lady Hamilton. Owner: The Earl of Warwick. Giovanni Paisiello - 1791 oil on canvas, 129 x 94 cm Versailles Giovanni Paisello was a popular composer of the 1790's. Vigee Le Brun attended the premiere of his new opera "Nina o la pazza d'amore" at the San Carlo Opera House in Naples in 1791. He is pictured here with the score of his opera on the clavicord. This portrait was displayed in the 2015 Paris Exhibition. View a copy of this painting (Art Page 54) at Museo Teatrale alla Scala, Milano, Italy Reference Kimbell Exhibition Catalog Number 33 for more details. Grand Duchess Elisabeth - 1795 oil on canvas, 30-3/4 x 24-3/4" Musée Fabre, Montpellier Grand Duchess Elisaveta Alexeevna, later Empress of Russia, consort of Alexander I. Pavlovitch. The original is in the Collection of the Princess of Hesse Darmstadt, Castle of Wolfsgarten (Art Page 135). Another copy is in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia(Art Page 48). View another portrait of Grand Duchess Elisabeth on Page 150. Vigée Le Brun's Home Page | Index to Art Pages | Vigée Le Brun's Gallery