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Countess von Bucquoi

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun French

1793

Not on view

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.

Countess von Bucquoi, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris), Oil on canvas — This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

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)

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