Comtesse de la Châtre

Comtesse de la Châtre
Artist	Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Year	1789
Medium	oil paint, canvas
Dimensions	114.3 cm (45.0 in) × 87.6 cm (34.5 in)
Location	Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession No.	54.182
Identifiers	The Met object ID: 437900

Comtesse de la Châtre is a 1789 painting by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun which is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.[1]

Description

The portrait depicts Comtesse de la Châtre,[2] wife of the Comte de la Châtre and future wife of François Arnail de Jaucourt. She had a penchant for wearing white muslin dresses, both for daily purposes and for portraits.

The artist, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, was a French painter who painted some 600 portraits in addition to landscapes.

The work is on view at The Metropolitan Museum's Gallery 631.

References

1. "Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848)". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2. "Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun - Portrait of Comtesse de la Châtre, 1789 | Trivium Art History". Trivium Art History. Retrieved 2017-10-28.

External links

• Marie Antoinette's: Femme of the Week: Comtesse de la Châtre