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Vigée Le Brun offers us a highly calculated image in which she explicitly associates herself with a great artist and his sitter. Looking at us directly with an open expression as she holds the tools of her profession (a palette and brushes), she presents herself as an elegant society lady and as an accomplished professional artist. By posing outdoors – and not, for example, in a studio – she replicates the contrasting light effects in Rubens’s portrait by combining ordinary daylight with direct sunlight.
Title
Self Portrait in a Straw Hat
Date
after 1782
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 97.8 x W 70.5 cm
Accession number
NG1653
Acquisition method
Bought, 1897
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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Charles Chetwynd, 2nd Earl Talbot (1777–1849) Ingestre Hall Residential Arts Centre -
Madame Perregaux The Wallace Collection -
Martine-Gabrielle-Yoland de Polastron (1745–1793), duchesse de Polignac National Trust, Waddesdon Manor -
Arabella Diana Cope (1769–1825), Duchess of Dorset National Trust, Knole -
Countess Golovina (1766–1821) The Barber Institute of Fine Arts -
Frederick Augustus Hervey (1730–1803), 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry National Trust, Ickworth -
Lady Hamilton (1761–1815), as a Bacchante Lady Lever Art Gallery - 14 more
