Shown from the knees up, a young woman with pale skin, wearing a short wine-red jacket over an ivory-white gown, gazes out at us from this vertical portrait painting. She sits in a chair surrounded by emerald-green cushions, which are covered with a light green floral pattern. The woman’s shoulders are squared toward us as her knees angle slightly to our right. The skirt of her gown is patterned with coin-sized gold dots against the white background, and the scooped neckline of her bodice is trimmed with gold ribbon. The top of at least four buttons on her velvet jacket are buttoned under…
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Madame d'Aguesseau de Fresnes

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755 - 1842)

1789

Medium
oil on wood
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 107 x 83.2 cm (42 1/8 x 32 3/4 in.) ; framed: 133.7 x 111.8 cm (52 5/8 x 44 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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