Google makes a fascinating discovery:
Regardless of what royal or aristocrat she was actually painting, basically every Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun painting was a secret self-portrait.

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Google makes a fascinating discovery:
Regardless of what royal or aristocrat she was actually painting, basically every Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun painting was a secret self-portrait.
Queen Louise of Prussia (nee Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz) by Vigee-Lebrun.
Princess Tatiana Vasilievna Yusupova by Vigee-Lebrun.
Queen Louise of Prussia by Vigee-Lebrun.
Close-up of Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, from a portrait by Vigee-Lebrun.
was she mad, a slut or some kind of wild revolutionary?
Grand Duchess Anna Feodorovna of Russia by Vigee-Lebrun.
a lazy little reference collage for a painting