File:Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun - Lady Hamilton as the Persian Sibyl.jpg

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Summary

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun: Life Study of Lady Hamilton as the Cumaean Sybil

Artist



Alternative names	Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun; Vigée-Le Brun; Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun
Description	French painter, salonnière, writer and artist
Date of birth/death	16 April 1755	30 March 1842
Location of birth/death	Paris	Paris
Work location	Vienna; Antwerp; City of Brussels; Paris; Versailles; Berlin; Rome; Amsterdam; The Hague; Rotterdam; Russia; London
Authority file	: Q213163 VIAF: 59113411 ISNI: 0000000116515656 ULAN: 500010070 LCCN: n82110153 NLA: 36535545 WorldCat

Title

Life Study of Lady Hamilton as the Cumaean Sybil

Object type

painting

Description

English: "Emma Hamilton (1765–1815) rose from the lowest rank of society to the peak of distinction by marrying, in 1791, Sir William Hamilton, English ambassador to Naples. There she was famous for her “attitudes”—tableaux vivants performed before swooning audiences who felt themselves transported back to antiquity. This study from life preceded a larger composition that Vigée Le Brun carried with her throughout Europe and Russia to promote her work." [1]

Depicted people

Emma, Lady Hamilton

Date

1792

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 73 cm (28.7 in); width: 57.2 cm (22.5 in)

Collection

Private collection

Unidentified location
Location	18th-century portrait paintings of women, with Not identified, Not provided, Unspecified, Unmentioned or UnknownUnknown location label QS:Len,"Not identified, Not provided, Unspecified, Unmentioned or UnknownUnknown location" .

Exhibition history

Paris. Grand Palais, Galeries nationales, Gras Savoye. "Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun," September 23, 2015–January 11, 2016.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Vigée Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France," February 15–May 15, 2016.
Ottawa. National Gallery of Canada. "Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842): The Portraitist to Marie Antoinette," June 10–September 11, 2016.

Inscriptions

bottom left:

L.E. Vigee Le Brun / a Rome 1792

References

Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection (The Met object ID 656960)

Source/Photographer

metmuseum.org

Other versions

Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun - Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton, as the Cumaen Sibyl.jpg

Licensing

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current	14:33, 12 September 2018	1,200 × 1,546 (360 KB)	Kawaart	Better quality
	18:26, 8 March 2018	485 × 625 (81 KB)	Kawaart	Better quality
	12:03, 15 November 2007	373 × 480 (80 KB)	Guil2027
	19:47, 14 November 2007	535 × 677 (78 KB)	Guil2027	{{Information \|Description=Lady Hamilton as the Persian Sibyl. Oil on canvas \|Source=http://www.europicture.de/product_info.php/products_id/430390 \|Date= 1792 {{Creator:Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun}} \|Permission= \|other_versions= }} [[Category:Emma, Lady Hami