Portrait of Countess Yekaterina von Engelhardt

Portrait of Countess Yekaterina von Engelhardt is an oil on canvas painting of Yekaterina von Engelhardt by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, from 1796. It was produced in Saint Petersburg and now is held in the Louvre, in Paris, 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]

Portrait of Countess Yekaterina von Engelhardt (1796) by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

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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