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Countess Anna Potocka
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun French
Not on view
Countess Potocka (1758–1814) had been widowed, divorced, and remarried by age thirty-three, and she would wed again in 1803. Vigée Le Brun doubtless painted her enterprising client comfortably seated indoors but introduced a fictional rock to support her. The imaginary landscape reveals a theater of cascades reminiscent of Tivoli, where the painter had recently created pastel drawings en plein air.
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