Vigée Le Brun's Home Page | Index to Art Pages | Vigée Le Brun's Gallery ART PAGE 190 Mme de Lamballe - 1782 Oil on canvas, 78 x 64 cm The Princess de Lamballe was best friend of Marie Antoinette. She was born in 1749. She was married to Louis Stanislas, the Prince de Lamballe (1747-68), the brother of Louise Marie Adélaïde de Penthièvre (the future Duchesse de Chartres). She was widowed at the age of 19. The Princess de Lamballe died on 3 Sept 1792 in Paris after she returned from England to help her queen. She was decapitated and her body was lacerated. Her head was mounted in a stick and put in front of the window of the temple where Marie Antoinette and the royal family were imprisoned. Another image of the Princess de Lamballe appears on art page 153 and art page 100 . View the 2011 sale information document. Self Portrait - 1791 Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 82.2 cm Watford Museum, UK Copy by Vigée Le Brun of her self portrait in the Uffizi Gallery, Frorence on Art Page 6. This paint is in the Watford Museum Collection, UK.. We did not know of this copy of the Uffizi self portrait.View the painting at the Watford Museum. The other known copy (with a different sitter) was painted for the Earl of Bristol by Vigée Le Brun (Art Page 6). The Earl of Bristol painting is listed in Vigée Le Brun's painting list. Another copy surfaced in March 2012 (also on Art Page 6). The copy is very similar to the Watford Copy but is still slightly different. Marie Antoinette - 1785 Oil on canvas Konopiste Castle, Czech Republic - ? This painting is thought to be a copy by Vigée Le Brun of the portrait of the Queen on Art Page 31 that is in a private collection. The paintings are slightly different. Konopiste Castle is 50 km south east of Prague in the town of Konopiste. The castle was the home of Archduke Ferdinand, assassinated in Sarajevo at the onset of World War I. Vigée Le Brun's Home Page | Index to Art Pages | Vigée Le Brun's Gallery