Caroline Murat, later Queen of Naples, and Her Daughter

1807

Not on view

Returned to lender

This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

Caroline Murat (1782–1839) and her daughter Letizia posed for this state portrait, commissioned for the Palais des Tuileries. Vigée Le Brun found Napoleon’s sister difficult to deal with: “The interval between sessions was so long that she had sometimes changed her hairstyle . . . so that I was obliged to scrape off the hair I had painted around the face.” Caroline wears a diadem and a richly embroidered court gown with a belt of pearls and cameos.

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Title: Caroline Murat, later Queen of Naples, and Her Daughter
Artist: Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris)
Date: 1807
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 85 1/4 × 56 1/2 in. (216.5 × 143.5 cm)
Frame: 93 11/16 × 64 13/16 × 3 15/16 in. (238 × 164.6 × 10 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon (MV 4712)
Curatorial Department: European Paintings