Vigee Le Brun ART Page 55

ART PAGE 55

	Marie Antoinette, a la zrose - 1785 oil on canvas, 46 x 35 in (116.8 x 88.9 cm) Collection of Lynda and Stewart Resnick Replica of the original of 1783
	Madame Hennet - 1809 oil on canvas, 28-3/4 x 23-1/4 in, 73 x 59 cm) Private Collection Largely because she goes unmentioned in Vigée Le Brun's memoirs, little is known about the sitter, though she may belong to the Hennet de Goutel family, which counted the painters Ingres and Chasseriau among its intimates.View a large image of the portrait.
	Self Portrait - 1808 oil on canvas, 16-1/4 x 13 in, 41.2 x 33 cm Private Collection Madame Vigée Le Brun made her first visit to Switzerland in 1807 and spent 2 weeks at Coppet with the celebrated novelist, Madame De Stael. The following summer she returned to Switzerland to attend the "Festival of the Shepards", held only once each century. She stayed with M. and Mme. Konig in Untersee. "The only payment that I was able to make M. Konig for his hospitality was a self portrait in oil that I sent them from Paris." This is one of four self portraits she painted after returning to Paris. Painted when Vigée Le Brun was 53 years of age, it shows a face no longer young, but still beautiful, and filled with vitality, good humor, and keen intelligence.View another image of this portrait.