From author Leah Marie Brown:
This portrait was painted by the incomparable Madame Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun who, incidentally, was Marie Antoinette's official portraitist.
The subject is the Baroness Crussol, wife of Henri-Charles-Emmanuel de
Crussol-Florensac, lieutenant general of the armies of the King of
France.
The Baroness holds a book of opera music, opened to a score by Christoph Willibald Gluck who, incidentally, was Marie Antoinette's preferred composer. (
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I believe this is the same Madame de Crussol who accompanied Madame Elisabeth to the guillotine. (More
HERE.)
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Stunning portrait!
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