Comtesse de la Châtre
Comtesse de la Châtre is a 1789 painting by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun which is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.Description
The portrait depicts Comtesse de la Châtre, wife of the Comte de la Châtre and future wife of François Arnail de Jaucourt. She had a penchant for wearing white muslin dresses, both for daily purposes and for portraits.
The artist, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, was a French painter who painted some 600 portraits in addition to landscapes.
The work is on view at The Metropolitan Museum's Gallery 631.
