Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… though she received no portrait commissions from the ladies she met there, such as Lady Hertford, Lady Monck, and the Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana Cavendish , who was ‘at the time, the most fashionable woman in London’ (664). 11 … pocketed by their masters (661). 11 . Amanda Foreman recounts in her biography of Georgiana Cavendish that the elegant duchess introduced the British to the light muslin dress à la Créole in which Vigée Le Brun had painted Marie-Antoinette in 1783, and that it was an immediate success. See Amanda Foreman, Georgiana. Duchess of Devonshire (New York: Harper Collins, 1999), p. 176. Image Legend Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, ‘Portrait of …
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