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Countess von Bucquoi

1793
Not on view
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.
In Vienna, Vigée Le Brun painted the countess (1746–1818) for her brother, a commission she received in the wake of the success of Lady Hamilton as the Cumaean Sibyl. She integrates her sitter, whom she called “kind and good,” in an autumnal landscape that combines the mountainous banks of the Danube with the Marble Falls of Terni.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Countess von Bucquoi
  • Artist: Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris)
  • Date: 1793
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 53 1/2 × 39 in. (135.9 × 99 cm)
    Frame: 61 1/2 × 47 × 3 1/2 in. (156.2 × 119.4 × 8.9 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The William Hood Dunwoody Fund (78.7)
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings