Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848)
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Title
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Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848)
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Rights
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public Domain.
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Creator
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Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842)
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Date
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1789
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Description
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The portrait of Comtesse de la Châtre is dressed in a white muslin dress with a darker blue ribbon tied around her waist. Wearing a wide-brimmed hat with an elegantly tied black ribbon. Châtre is postured slightly turned with her hands crossed on an armrest and her thumb parting a page in a book. The gesture of her hand in the book was commonly used to depict the rise in education of women and the spreading of knowledge through literature.
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Format
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Painting. Oil on canvas. 114.3 x 87.6 cm.
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Publisher
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Contributor
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Madalyn Wnenta
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Identifier
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Metropolitan Museum of Art. 54.182
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Subject
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Portrait; French; France; 1700s, 18th century; royal court; woman; fashion; French baroque; rococo
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Source
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Jpeg file. Unknown Photographer. Metropolitan Museum of Art Digital Collection. 11/2/25.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437900.
