Portrait of Countess Yekaterina von Engelhardt

Portrait of Countess Yekaterina von Engelhardt is an oil-on-canvas painting created in 1796 by the French painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, from 1796. Its subject, Yekaterina von Engelhardt, was a Russian noblewoman and lady in waiting. The portrait 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]

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

^ ^a ^b (in French) "Base Joconde entry".
^ (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)