Arabella Diana Cope, Duchess of Dorset (1769-1825)
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (Paris 1755 – Paris 1842).
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1803 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
749 x 622 mm (29 1/2 x 24 1/2 in)
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Knole, Kent
NT 129904
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Arabella Diana Cope, Duchess of Dorset (1769-1825) by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (Paris 1755 – Paris 1842), signed and dated 1803. A half-length portrait of a young woman, turned to the right, gazing at the spectator, wearing a black velvet dress and white blouse, with curly brown hair showing beneath a red turban trimmed with a black ribbon and a large black ostrich feather.
Provenance
By descent at Knole; recorded in the 1828 inventory of Knole in the Little Dining Room / Blue Room (No.83); thence by descent; on loan from the Trustees of the Sackville Estate.
Marks and inscriptions
Lower right: L. E. Vigée Le Brun / 1803
Makers and roles
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (Paris 1755 – Paris 1842)., artist
Exhibition history
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 2015 - 2016, no.137