Vigee Le Brun ART Page 37

ART PAGE 37

	Princess Maria Theresa-1790 oil on panel, 13-3/4" x 11" Conde Chantilly, France Princess Maria Theresa, later Empress of Austria. The Queen of Naples commissioned this portrait of her eldest daughter, Maria Theresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1772-1807). She married her first cousin, Franz II , Emperor of Germany (1792-1806) and Austria (1806-35).View another image of this painting and another and a different version of the portrait on Art Page 66.The larger original, oil on canvas, is at Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples.
	Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples-1790 oil on panel, 13-3/4" x 11" Conde Chantilly, France The original, 21" x 15 1/8," was destroyed by fire July, 1940 in Providence, Rhode Island. Queen Marie Caroline (1752-1814) was the daughter of Franz of Lothringen and MarieTheresa, Emperess of Austria and the sister of Marie-Antoinette. She married Ferdinand, king of Naples and Sicily in 1768.
	Countess Skavronskaia-1789 Oil on canvas, 84 x 114 cm Kunstmuseum Bern Countess Ekaterina Vasilievna Skavronskaia, née Engelhardt, a niece of Prince Potemkin, married Count Pavel Martynovich Skavronsky (1757-1793). Vigée Le Brun lists painting a 3/4 length portrait and two busts while she was in Naples (1790-91). She also lists two half-lengths that were painted while in St. Petersburg (ca. 1796). View another image of this painting.