Portrait of Countess Yekaterina von Engelhardt

Portrait of Countess Yekaterina von Engelhardt is a 1796 oil on canvas painting of Yekaterina von Engelhardt by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, produced in Saint Petersburg and now in the Louvre, which acquired it in 1966.[1] It was exhibited in Saint Petersburg in 1905 as part of the exhibition Russian Portraits of the 18th and 19th Centuries.[1]

Other versions

An earlier portrait of the same subject was produced by the artist in Naples in 1790 and is now in the musée Jacquemart-André in Paris.[2]

References
  1. (in French) "Base Joconde entry".
  2. (in French) Marie-Jo Bonnet, Les femmes dans l'art : qu'est ce que les femmes ont apporté à l'art ?, Paris, La Martinière, octobre 2004, 252 p. (ISBN 2-7324-3087-0)
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