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A gentle glimpse into elegance and grace.
Madame Du Barry by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.
Charles-Antoine Coypel, Double Portrait Presumed to Represent François de Jullienne (1722–1754) and His Wife (Marie Élisabeth de Séré de Rieux, 1724–1795), 1743, pastel, black chalk, watercolor, and traces of black chalk underdrawing on four joined sheets of handmade blue laid paper, mounted on canvas and adhered to a keyed stretcher, 100 x 80 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Mastery of fabric painting by Alexander Roslin.
Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia
A portrait by Vladimir Borovikovsky, 1796, rococo
Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, Hereditary Princess of Mecklenburg (24.12.1784 - 24.09.1803) was the daughter of the future Tsar Paul I of Russia and Sophia Dorothea of Württemberg. She had been named after Helen of Troy and mainly educated in feminine subjects, such as music, art and literature.
She was closest to her sister Alexandra, who almost had the same life planned for her as Elena had had. She had an arranged marriage to the Hereditary Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. They married in Russia in 1799 when she was just fifteen years of age.
Elena went on to give birth to two children; a boy, Paul Friedrich, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and a daughter, Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. It has been said that her marriage was a happy one.
A month after falling gravely ill, she died in Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg-Schwerin at the age of 18.
Jean-Marc Nattier, Portrait of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, 1755, oil on canvas, 82,3 x 64,5 cm, private collection, London
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Jean-Marc Nattier, Portrait of Monsieur Sarasin, 1734, oil on canvas, 79 x 53 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris
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Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694-1752), Portrait of Charlotte Philippine de Châtre du Cangé, Marquise de Lamure (1713-1789) (wrongly identified as Louise Anne de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Charolais (1695-1758)), 1732-35, pastel on blue paper laid down on linen, 73 x 59 cm, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester (Massachusetts)
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Unknown artist, Portrait of Leonardo Leo (detail), 18th century, oil on canvas, Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro a Majella, Naples
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