Comtesse de la Châtre

White muslin, a gaze that meets yours without flinching: a countess painted in the very year the Bastille fell. Portraitist to Marie-Antoinette, Vigée Le Brun fled France with her daughter and spent twelve years painting Europe — Vienna, Rome, Naples, Saint Petersburg — and more than a thousand sitters. Posterity kept her 'charm' and forgot her technique, her prices and her exile.

Part of the 'Erased Masterpieces' curatorial series celebrating women artists restored to art history.