Portrait of Mrs. Chinnery

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Artist Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755–1842)

Title Portrait of Mrs. Chinnery

Date 1803

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Overall: 36 x 28 in. (91.4 x 71.1 cm)
Framed: 44 1/4 × 36 × 4 1/4 in. (112.4 × 91.4 × 10.8 cm)

Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 75.68

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Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun was renowned for her stylish portrayals of the European nobility. Before 1789, she had been court portraitist to Marie Antoinette, and following the French Revolution, she spent years traveling throughout Europe. From 1803 to 1805, Vigée Le Brun was in England, where she made the acquaintance of London society hostess Margaret Chinnery (1764–1840), and spent time at the Chinnery country estate, Gilwell Park. Here, Vigée Le Brun emphasizes Mrs. Chinnery’s interests in culture and literature, posing her with a book by the French author and educator Stéphanie Félicité, Comtesse de Genlis (1746–1830).

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