The Marquise de Pezay and the Marquise de Rougé with Her Two Sons
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.This group portrait and conversation piece is unusual in the oeuvre of Vigée Le Brun. It was commissioned by the marquise de Rougé, seated at the center, and exalts the values of friendship and family. The painter, at the pinnacle of her art, renders the sitters’ gentle faces and gleaming apparel with a virtuosic command of her medium.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Marquise de Pezay and the Marquise de Rougé with Her Two Sons
- Artist: Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris)
- Date: 1787
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 48 9/16 × 61 3/8 in. (123.3 × 155.9 cm)
Frame: 70 × 80 × 7 1/2 in. (177.8 × 203.2 × 19.1 cm) - Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of the Bay Foundation in memory of Josephine Bay Paul and Ambassador Charles Ulrick Bay (1964.11.1)
- Curatorial Department: European Paintings